Sewing Machine Needle
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A short dictionary entry on the sewing-machine needle from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It describes the manufacturing process step by step: cutting wire blanks, grooving, punching the eye, straightening, pointing, polishing, stamping sizes, hardening in oil, tempering, and final polishing. It also distinguishes straight needles from curved ones used on Wheeler and Wilson and Grover and Baker machines, and mentions a machine that makes needles automatically.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
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- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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