Knitting-Machine
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Encyclopedia entry on the knitting machine from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It opens with the origins of knitting and distinguishes it from braiding, netting and weaving, then gives a brief history from Scotland c. 1500 through William Lee's 1589 stocking frame and later English patents. The main part describes how several machine types work, illustrated with engravings: Lamb's straight two-bed machine, the Bickford circular machine, Hinckley's single-needle machine, an ordinary circular tube machine, and a flat-web machine. It ends with a glossary of technical names for knitting-machine parts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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