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all of excellent workmanship, by Henry Livesey, of Green- bank, Blackburn.
Escher, Wyss & Co., of Zurich, exhibited looms for weaving colored stuffs, arranged for different mountings, and to work with three, with four, and with five shuttles.
Kuffmaul and Sons, of Basle, exhibited a loom for tapestry, with high warp, with a jacquard machine of 1,500 lifting wires.
Conspicuous in the German department, were the looms and the tools connected with weaving, exhibited by the Sachsisehe Webstuhlfabrik (formerly Louis Schoenherr), of Chemnitz. These looms are said to be adapted for the lightest as well as for the heaviest stuffs; for the closest and for the widest arrangement of warp ; with change of weft; with or without the jacquard machine. This company was formed in 1851, and now employs about 700 workmen.
The Crompton loom, in a lighter and more simple form than heretofore made, was exhibited by the Sachsisehe Maschinen Fabrik.(formerly Richard Hartmann).
In the Austrian department several looms were in operation, including those of the Tannenwald Cotton Works, which appeared to be composed of all possible elements of other looms, but good, both in combination and workmanship. There was one loom in the American department, constructed and exhibited by the Star Tool Company of Providence, which has two or three interesting details, and makes 300 picks per minute.
Reference will be m$de to only a few more machines, all of which, it was claimed, contained new and interesting details, namely : A warping-frame and a warp-dressing machine, by the Erste Brunner Maschinen Fabriks Gesellschaft, Briinn. A mechanical knitting-loom, by Ernst Supe, of Limbach (and here it may be mentioned, that the well-known Lamb knitting-machine, and several others, were exhibited). A covering and twisting machine, and a cord-making machine, by G. Stein, of Berlin. A singeing machine, and other machines for finishing, by the Zittauer Maschinen Fabrik und Eisengiesserei, Zittau: also a drying machine by the same company. Stretching machines, by William Birch, of Manchester, and by J. Ducommun & Co., of Mulhouse. A craping machine, by A. Kiessler, of Zittau; and a calendering