4 SEWING SILK AND TWIST. 



vention. Within a few years past, silk machinery- 

 has been much improved in this country, and the 

 community are much indebted to Messrs. Gay and 

 Moseley, two ingenious machinists, of Lisbon, Con- 

 necticut, for the degree of perfection to which it hai 

 arrived. 



BROOKS SPINNING MACHINE. 



Mr. Amos Brooks, of Scituate, Mass., has invented 

 a very useful machine for taking the silk from the 

 cocoon and manufacturing it into sewing silk, at one 

 operation, j The foregoing engraving representing the 

 mnchine in operation, and the following description oi 

 it, we copy from the Complete Farmer, a valuable 

 agricultural work, published at Boston. 



