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Catalog of the Collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington: Textile Machinery
Catalog of the Collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington: Textile Machinery
Monograph · 78 pages
A 1921 catalogue of the Textile Machinery collection at the Science Museum, South Kensington, with descriptive and historical notes on each numbered object. It covers cotton, wool and silk preparing and spinning machinery, looms and shedding motions including Jacquard apparatus, knitting machinery, finishing, dyeing and printing machinery, sewing machines, and rope-making machines. Each entry gives the donor, date received and an account of how the machine works. Three plates of photographs, a list of donors and an index are included.
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington
Book · 78 pages
A 1921 Board of Education catalogue of the textile machinery collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington, with descriptive and historical notes on each object. It is arranged by process: cotton preparing and spinning, wool, silk reeling and throwing, looms and shedding motions (including Jacquard and power looms), knitting, finishing, dyeing and printing, sewing machines, and rope-making. Entries give donors, dates, inventory numbers and technical explanations of how each machine worked. Three plates of photographs at the end illustrate cotton gins, spinning wheels, Hargreaves's jenny, Crompton's mule, a Jacquard apparatus and sewing machines. There is a list of donors and an index.

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