Note 74 — Chapter III · ToC
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P.R. Hodge, civil engineer—evidence before House of Lords Committee in 1857.
In Germany a spinning-wheel had been long in use for flax-spinning, which in effect was an anticipation of the throstle (cf. Karmarch, Technologie, vol. ii. p. 844, quoted Schulze-Gaevernitz, p. 30), and machine-weaving is said to have been discovered in Danzig as early as 1579.