I'jgz. irfiprovements in manufactures. J4y 



Weaving machine. 



Mant persons have at different times invented machines 

 for weaving a complete r,irt, or coat, without a seam j 

 these, however, have hitherto been all laid aside in prac- 

 tice, as matters of mere uselefs ingenuity. It is probable 

 the same thing may happen with regard to an invention 

 that has been lately announced in the newspapers, said to 

 have been made by an artist near Halifax, with which 

 he can weave a complete suit of clothes of a»y. fafliion re- 

 quired, each article consisting of one piece o;iIy,, without 

 a seam. 



New improvement on the spinning machine 

 . An important improvement we hear has lately been: 

 jnade in the spinning of cotton, by a gentleman whojhas the 

 superintendance of one of Mr Dale's most extensive works 

 in Lanarkfhire. Hitherto it has been found to be imprac- 

 ticable to spin cotton yarn for the chain, or warp, by ma- 

 chinery turned by water : it was necefsary to do it by 

 hand, on the machines c?i\\eA jennies or mules. On these 

 last machines the operator drew out the thread with, un- 

 equal degrees of quicknefs, twisting it more at one part 

 of the operation than another, which inequality, in the 

 XfKQ branches of the operation,, they did not know how to 

 perform entirely by the machinery without hand. The 

 gentleman of whom I speak, has contrived an apparatus 

 by which he is able to effect this operation by machinery,, 

 alone, in a manner, it is said, much better than it can be 

 done by the hand. He has, we hear, taken out a patent 

 to secure his invention ; and report goes, that he has 

 been already offered fifty thousand pounds by certain ma^ 

 Bufacturers in Manchester to afsign his patent to them. 



This was an improvement so much wanted, and at the 

 same time so obviously within the power of machinery to 

 perform, that it is rather a surprise it (hould have been so) 



