The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines
by Rogers, Grace
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- paperback
- Condition
- Good. Tight with no tears or extraneous marks. Some shelf soiling to covers; foxing to end pages.
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Sminthsonian Institution, 1959. Original Edition. Softcover. Good. Tight with no tears or extraneous marks. Some shelf soiling to covers; foxing to end pages.. Tan stapled wraps, illustrated, with brown lettering. 14 pp. with 10 bw figures. Paper 1, pages 1-14, from Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; United States National Museum Bulletin No. 218. Essays explain primitive carding, the first mechanical cards; John and Arthur Scholfield, the Newburyport Woollen Manufactory, and the Scholfield machines. Included are 4 bw photos, 2 bw illustrations, and 4 bw line-drawing diagrams. Of interest to anyone in the wool, textile, or historical technology industries.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 160229
- Title
- The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines
- Author
- Rogers, Grace
- Format/binding
- Softcover
- Book condition
- Used - Good. Tight with no tears or extraneous marks. Some shelf soiling to covers; foxing to end pages.
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- Original Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sminthsonian Institution
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Technology and Manufacturing; Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines ; Carding Machines; Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Technology and Manufacturing;
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