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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 8 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 2 2 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 2 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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ined an utterly unexpected prominence and a lease of life for three terms, in all twenty-eight years, ending in 1877, although the device was but the substitution of a continuous spiked band for the plate of limited length. It is not true that Bachelder was the first to horizontalize the machine; that was done nearly sixty years previous. It had an endless band or cylinder studded with a row of points which carried the fabric to and past the needle. It was a decided improvement on Howe's basve horizontally about a vertical axis and sustain and move material, as in patent to Blodgett and Lerow (B), October 2, 1849, or may move about a horizontal axis and carry the material over a horizontal cloth-supporting surface, as in patent to Bachelder (C), May 8, 1849. When pins are used it is difficult to sew other than a straight seam. Wheel-feed. A wheel with periphery roughened or serrated, projecting through a slot in a cloth-supporting surface, and engaging and moving the material.