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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 1 1 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 1 1 Browse Search
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carried in the paper-making machine. The cloth on which the paper is couched from the making cylinder is known as the making felt. Others as carrying felts, first felt, second felt, etc. Appurtenances of the felt are known as felt-washers, feltrollers, etc. Felt-carpet. A carpet whose fibers are not spun or woven, but are associated by the felting process. Felt′ed cloth. （Fabric.) Cloth made by felting, without spinning or weaving, was patented in England by Williams, in February, 1850. Felt-grain. （Wood-working.) The grain of wood whose direction is from the pith to the bark; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Felt′ing-ma-chine′. Felting-machines are of various kinds. 1. For acting upon the material in mass, as in the fulling-mill (Fig. 1943), where the cloth in a bath of soap-suds is pounded by the stock, which swings like a pendulum on its bearings above. Fulling-mill. 2. A lower reciprocating bed mounted on groo