A 1879 monograph by John L. Hayes, secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, republished from the association's Bulletin. It traces the history of textile machinery in the United States, from English export restrictions and Samuel Slater's Pawtucket mill through Waltham, Lowell and the independent machine shops. It then describes American contributions to cotton and woollen machinery (ring spinning, looms, carpet looms, felting, calico printing). It also covers links to machine tools, locomotives, firearms and agricultural machinery, and closes with an argument for keeping the tariff on imported textile machinery.

Scanned excerpt of John L. Hayes's 1879 pamphlet on American textile machinery, republished from the Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers. It includes the title page, a full table of contents, and the opening of the essay on the value of a national textile industry. Most of the scanned pages are an appended section on John Goulding's 1826 patent for endless roving in wool carding, covering the patent's claims, the 1864 infringement suit Goulding v. Bickford & Lombard, the House Committee on Patents report of 1862, the 1862 Act of Congress for his relief, the patent extension, and royalty and license notices.