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Machine to lay the wool fibers parallel by length
An illustration of James Noble's wool combing machine, called the Noble Comb, from
Popular Science in1891.
The wool combing machine was invented by
Edmund Cartwright , the inventor of the
power loom , in
Doncaster . The machine was used to arrange and lay parallel by length the
fibers of
wool , prior to further treatment.
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Cartwright's invention, nicknamed "Big Ben," was originally
patented in April 1790, with subsequent patents following in December 1790 and May 1792 as the machine's design was refined by Cartwright.
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[4] This machine is the first example of
mechanization of the wool combing stage of the
textile manufacturing process, and a significant achievement for the
textile industry .
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[5] Cartwright's machine was described as doing the work of 20 hand-combers.
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The wool combing machine was improved refined by many later inventors, including
Josué Heilmann ,
Samuel Cunliffe Lister ,
Isaac Holden , and
James Noble .
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References
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b Lamb, James H. (1911).
Textile Industry of the United States: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and a Historical Resumé of the Progress of Textile Manufacture from the Earliest Records to the Present Time . J.H. Lamb Company. pp. 78–79.
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d Barker, Derek (2013).
"Research Note 'Lost in Oblivion': James Noble of the Noble Comb" . Textile History . 44 (2): 214–234.
doi :
10.1179/0040496913Z.00000000029 .
ISSN
0040-4969 .
S2CID
192151267 .
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"CHAPTER SEVEN. Processes and Inventions" , A Short History of Wool and Its Manufacture , Harvard University Press, pp. 118–151, 1953-12-31,
doi :
10.4159/harvard.9780674337121.c8 ,
ISBN
978-0-674-33665-0 , retrieved 2022-10-05
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c Lemon, Hugo (1963).
"The Hand Craftsman in the Wool Textile Trade" . Folk Life . 1 (1): 66–76.
doi :
10.1179/043087763798255060 .
ISSN
0430-8778 .
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b Usher, Abbott Payson (1960).
"The Industrialization of Modern Britain" . Technology and Culture . 1 (2): 109–127.
doi :
10.2307/3101054 .
JSTOR
3101054 .
^ Yarwood, Doreen (1978). Encyclopaedia of World Costume . Batsford. p. 407.
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"Looms burned" .
Newark Advertiser . Archived from
the original on 29 March 2016.
^ Peel, A. Geoffrey (1955).
"James Noble—1853–1953" . Journal of the Textile Institute Proceedings . 46 (10): P688–P691.
doi :
10.1080/19447015508665130 .
ISSN
1944-7019 .
Materials Techniques Hand spinning tools Industrial spinning