A June 2, 1900 Scientific American piece on the new cotton textile schools in the South, chiefly the Georgia school (Georgia Tech) and Clemson College in South Carolina. It describes the mill equipment donated by machine makers, the range of looms and machines students learn on, the four-year and two-year curricula, and the argument for manufacturing cotton goods in the South rather than shipping raw cotton abroad. The cover page carries photographs of the schools' spinning, weaving, dyeing, carding, and winding rooms.

US patent No. 99,503, granted February 1, 1870, to Charles Wall of New York and John Stewart of Brooklyn for an improved drawing-frame for dressing flax, hemp and manilla fibre. The invention adds a series of revolving comb-cylinders working over an endless carrying-apron to the existing endless chain and condensing apparatus, so combing and drawing into slivers happen in one machine and the separate lap-machines are no longer needed. The document has a sheet of patent drawings (side elevation, plan and transverse section) and the printed specification with a single claim.