The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines
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The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines is by Grace Rogers Cooper. The contents list names Primitive Carding, The First Mechanical Cards and John and Arthur Scholfield, among others. The text explains that carding is the necessary preliminary step by which individual short fibers of wool or cotton are separated and cleaned of foreign materials so they can be spun into yarn.
One section says that the earliest method of carding wool was probably one in which, by use of the fingers alone, the tufts were pulled apart, the foreign particles loosened and extracted, and the fibers blended. Fuller's teasels, thistles with hooked points, were also used at a very early date for carding. One passage argues that the Scholfields' importance to American wool manufacture was not contingent on the building of one successful carding machine, regardless of whether it was the first.
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- Grace Rogers Cooper
- Pages
- 16
- Language
- English
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- Engineering
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