ILLUSTRATIONS
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ROPE DRIVE FOR A MILL SHAFT Frontispiece
1. TWO-YEAR-OLD SISAL PLANT 6
2. AGAVE AMERICANA 8
3. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF A LEAF OF AGAVE AMERICANA 10
4. PHOTOMICROGRAPH OF A SECTION OF FIBRES OF AGAVE AMERICANA 11
5. PHOTOMICROGRAPH OF FIBRES OF AGAVE GROWN IN MEXICO SHOWING OXALATE OF POTASH CRYSTALS 12
6. GROUP OF HEMP PLANTS 13
7. CROSS-SECTION OF PLANT 13
8. LONGITUDINAL VIEW OF COTTON FIBRES 15
9. CROSS-SECTIONAL VIEW OF COTTON FIBRES 15
10. MANILA FIBRES: ORDER OF GRADING 35
11. BRIDGE’S “ACME” GRAVITY PATENT SISAL BREAKER 38
12. BRIDGE’S “CLIMAX” PATENT SISAL DECORTICATOR 40
13. WASHING TANKS 43
14. HOUSING FOR POWER PLANT 43
15. CUMMINS’S PATENT HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC BALING PRESS 43
16. MAURITIUS FIBRE PLANT 47
17. BALES OF MANILA, NEW ZEALAND AND SISAL FIBRES 54
18. BREAKING MACHINE 60
19. HACKLING MACHINE 62
20. SPREAD BOARD 69
21. BREAKER AND FINISHER CARDS 74
22. DRAWING FRAMES 80
23. ROVING FRAME 81
24. DRY SPINNING FRAME 84
25. HACKLER AND SPREADER 87
26. INTERMEDIATE MACHINE 89
27. AUTOMATIC SPINNING MACHINE 91
28. DRYING BLEACHED YARNS 93
29. ROPE-MAKING (HOUSE MACHINES) 101
30. LAYING OF A FOUR-STRAND CABLE-LAID ROPE IN THE ROPE WALK 105
31. VIEWS OF LARGE AND MEDIUM-SIZED COILS OF ROPE 106
CORDAGE AND CORDAGE HEMP AND FIBRES