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learned in a short time from any treatise or book. It is understood that Italy is making rapid progress in this and many other branches of industry.
Our Massachusetts manufacturers are generally well acquainted with all machinery and raw materials adapted to their wants, are promptly informed of all inventions and improvements, and are not slow to adopt whatever is valuable.
Some of the numerous exhibits of textile fabric machinery and apparatus will now be referred to, full descriptions and illustrations of which are easily attainable by any one desiring the same.
Machinery for the cotton branch of textile industry was poorly represented. Switzerland alone showed a complete series of cotton-spinning machines, without any noteworthy improvements, by Jacob Reiter & Co., of Winterthur.
Wool-washing was chemically represented by German houses, and the mechanical process by McNaught & Co., of England, who exhibited machines of improved construction.
A wool-opening machine was exhibited by M. Celestin Martin,* of Verviers, Belgium, capable of working 400 pounds of wool per hour ; also a self-acting oiling-machine of simple construction, w T ith which, it is said, a single workman can oil 3,000 pounds of wool in twelve hours. Other machines were shown by the same well-known engineer. Excellent wool- combing machines were shown by Platt Brothers, of Oldham, England.
Wool-carding w T as largely represented by well-known German, Belgian and English houses, some of whom claimed important improvements. The machines of M. Martin, who exhibited two systems of carding, attracted much attention.
Wool-spinning was well represented ; and here again the . machines of M. Celestin Martin were conspicuous. The selfactor for carded wool, by M. Bede, of Verviers, contains interesting and original features of probable value.
Much interest was manifested in the patent continuous wool- spinner, by John G. Avery, of Worcester County, Mass., which, it is claimed in his circular, "will do more and better work with one-half the number of spindles at less than half