Knowledge is power : $b A view of the productive forces of modern society and the results of labor, capital and skill.Knight, Charles
Philosophy
Knowledge is power : $b A view of the productive forces of modern society and the results of labor, capital and skill.
Knight, Charles
Industrial arts; Industries
Modern Syrian cart 165
29. Brindley's aqueduct over the Irwell 168
30. Railway locomotive 171
31. Reindeer 173
32. Beaver 174
33. Pyramid and sphinx 176
34. Boulton 179
35. Carpenters and their tools (from an old German woodcut) 181
36. Egyptian labour in the brick-field 183
37. Scotch carpet-loom 188
38. Sheet-glass making 192
39. Potter's wheel of modern Egypt 195
40. Moulds for porcelain, and casts 196
41. Wedgwood 197
42. Ancient shadoof 202
43. Conduit in Westcheap 206
44. Old water-carrier of London 208
45. Plug in a frost 209
46. London street-lights, 1760 211
47. Cotton; showing a pod bursting 214
48. Distaff 216
49. A Hindoo woman spinning cotton 217
50. Sir Richard Arkwright 219
51. Arkwright's original spinning-machine 220
52. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning-mule 222
53. Hindoo weaver at work in a field 228
54. Dr. Cartwright, inventor of the power-loom 229
55. Flemish weaver (from a print of 1568) 230
56. Mechanism of power-loom 242
57. Jacquard cards 243
58. Hanks of silk 247
59. Egyptian winding-reel 247
60. Silk-winding machine 248
61. Indigo-harvest In the West Indies 252
62. Gloves for the great 260
63. Cobbler's stall, about 1760 261
64. Men'seg, or Egyptian embroidery frame 263
65. Bobbin-net meshes 264
66. Essential parts of the bobbin-net machine 265
67. Stamping the eye of a needle 269
68. Stamping, pressing, and punching buttons.--Elliott's
factory 271
69.
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