The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia: Comprehending Practical Illustrations of the Machinery and Processes Employed in Every Description of Manufacuture of the British Empire
The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia: Comprehending Practical Illustrations of the Machinery and Processes Employed in Every Description of Manufacuture of the British Empire
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...machine contained but 20 or 30 spindles. Subsequently, Stones, of Harwich, a machinist, constructed a mule in a workmanlike manner, making the rollers of metal, and applying clock-work to move them; the mule was thus adapteJ for 100 to 130 spindles. Baker, of Bury, and Hargraves, of Toddington, introduced some ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...machine contained but 20 or 30 spindles. Subsequently, Stones, of Harwich, a machinist, constructed a mule in a workmanlike manner, making the rollers of metal, and applying clock-work to move them; the mule was thus adapteJ for 100 to 130 spindles. Baker, of Bury, and Hargraves, of Toddington, introduced some improvements. In 1790, Mr. Kelly, of Lanark mills, applied water power to the mule, and shortly after Mr. Wright, of Manchester, constructed a double mule. By these successive additions the machine was made capable of working with no less than 400 spindles. Since this period mules have been so much increased in size and effectiveness, that there arc many at work in Manchester and elsewhere of 800 spindles each, and some of the prodigious number of 1100 spindles each, or 2200 the pair, the pair being managed by one spinner. Mr. Crompton having made no attempt to secure this important invention, Parliament was memorialized on the subject, and a grant of 5000/. was obtained free of all charges; and it is worthy of remark, that at this time (1812), there were at work, on the principle of his invention, between four and five millions of spindles! But the course of improvement has not yet stopped; mules are now constructed which do not require the aid of a spinner, the mechanism being so contrived as to roll the spindle carriage out and in at the proper speed, without a hand touching it; and the only maimal labour employed in these machines, (which are called self-acting mules, ) is that of the children who join the broken threads. The first machine of this nature was invented by the ingenious Mr. W. Strutt, of Derby, son of Mr. Jedediah Strut!, the partner of Arkwright. This appears to have been in the year 1790; and two years afterwards, Mr. Kelly, of Lana..
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