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" April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of operation with mine. Availing myself, however, of what I then saw, I made a loom in its general principles... "
The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes - Page 345
by George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 3 pages
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A Compendious History of the Cotton-manufacture: With a Disproval of the ...

Richard Guest - 1823 - 110 pages
...April, " 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove; and " you will guess my astonishment, when I compared their easy modes...now made. But it was not till the year " 1787, that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, " August 1st, of that year." Mr....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 1

1824 - 884 pages
...April 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment, when I compared their easy modes...mine. Availing myself, however, of what I then saw. 1 made a loom, in its general principles, nearly as tht-y are now made. But it was not till the year...
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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines: And of ..., Volume 2

Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pages
...April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove, and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of...principles, nearly as they are now made, but it was not until the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent in August...
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The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for ...

1886 - 420 pages
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A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the ...

George Richardson Porter - 1831 - 370 pages
...April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of...now made : but it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August 1. of that year." The history...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 436 pages
...April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of...are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year." Dr....
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of...are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year." l)r....
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History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, Volume 1

Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 590 pages
...April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove; and you will guess my astonishment, when I compared their easy modes...are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August 1st of that year." Dr. Cartwright...
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Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures

George Savage White - 1836 - 502 pages
...in April 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove, and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of...principles, nearly as they are now made, but it was not until the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent in August...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
...April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of...now made. But it was not till the year 1787, that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year."/ Dr....
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