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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
re circumference is covered with narrow fillet-cards wound spirally around it, a blank space intervening between each fillet, or is covered with strips lengthwise of the cylinder. The cylinder revolves beneath a concave shell, whose face is also lined with cards, and the teeth of each act coincidently upon the bunches of fiber to draw them apart and lay the individual fibers parallel, as explained under card. The first carding-machines built in America were made for Mr. Orr, of East Bridgewater, Mass., in 1786. The carding-machine consists of a number of rollers and drums, and one large cylinder all clothed with cards, which are so arranged as to feed, card, doff, and deliver. A portion of the circumference of the large cylinder A is inclosed by smaller toothed rollers D E F G; then succeed wooden slats lying lengthwise of the cylinder, and supported by the side at such distance as to allow the wire teeth to come into the required proximity. These slats are called card-tops,