Early American Contributions to Textile Finishing Machinery
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A one-page article reprinted from Scientific American on the American origins of cloth finishing machinery. It summarizes Dr. Hermann Grothe's research on American inventors' contributions to fulling mills, gigging mills, cylinder shearing machines, and steam and hydraulic cloth presses. It cites patents from about 1774 to 1817 and traces how these machines were exported to or copied in England and France.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- March 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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