Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...women. In Windham and Tolland counties, in Connecticut, the following quantities of Silk were made this year: Mansfield, 2430 pounds; Chaplin, 550 pounds; Ashfield, 500 pounds; Hampton, 467 pounds; Coventry, 350 pounds; total, 4,297 pounds, worth four dollars per pound. It was made in several other towns, from which there were no returns. Two attempts made, during the last and present years, by the Messrs. Terhoeven, near Philadelphia, to rear two crops of worms in a season, proved failures, although two crops had been produced at Bethlehem in 1825, by Messrs. Weiss & Yonngman. The Messrs. Terhoeven, brothers, about this time invented a simple and ingenious machine for winding silk from the cocoons, and for doubling and twisting at the same time--operations believed to have never before been united in the same machine. It gave perfect satisfaction, and the inventors were awarded a medal and twenty dollars, from the fund left by John Scott, of Edinburgh, to the corporation of Philadelphia, for the distribution of premiums "to ingenious men and women, who make useful inventions and improvements. A manufactory of Ingrain or Kidderminister carpets and shawls, was carried on at Tarifiville, Connecticut, by an incorporated company, under the direction of H. K. Knight; some of its productions were considered elegant, and four years after, it employed a capital of $123,000 and ninety-five male weavers. The first Lithographic establishment in the United States was this (1) Rush's Manual, pp. 26, 39, 178. 1827 LITHOGRAPHY--CHINA--BELLS--CARD MACHINES. 319 year established at Boston, by Wm, S. Pendleton, who imported artists and materials from England, and produced portraits, music titles, and other beautiful specimens of the art, with...
