E. Burt's Plaid Loom
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A short 1848 Scientific American item in the 'New Inventions' column about Enoch Burt's power plaid loom. It quotes a letter from W. Norton Jr. of Marlboro Mills reporting that one weaver tended a loom producing 938 yards in a week, about 39 yards per loom per day, at 48 picks to the inch. The piece also comments on the value of American inventors and mechanics, and includes an engraving of a woman seated at a power loom.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1848
- 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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