INGENUITY AND LUXURY 



the admirable summary of the development of textile machinery 

 given in the Catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 

 London. 



CHAPTER III 



THE STORY OF COSTUMES 



(p. 66.) Fashion versus Law. The quotation is from "A 

 History of English Dress," by Georgiana Hill, 2 vols., New York, 

 1893. 



(pp. 67-68.) Philip IV and the ruff. The quotations are from 

 "The Court of Philip IV," by Martin Hume, New York, 1907. 



(pp. 74-75.) Relating to hoop skirts. The quotation is from 

 "A History of English Dress," by Georgiana Hill, New York, 

 1893. 



CHAPTER IV 



THE SEWING-MACHINE 



(p. 88 and pp. 93-94.) The claims of Howe. The quotations 

 are from a work published in New York in 1860, presenting the 

 case argued by George Gifford, Esq., in favor of Elias Howe, 

 Jr., for an extension of his patents for sewing-machines. In 

 the course of the proceedings it was testified that Howe's original 

 machine, operating in 1845, was tested as to speed against the 

 hand-work of five girls, and beat them. Again, that the same 

 machine was operated at the rate of 280 stitches per minute, 

 doing good sewing. Evidence was also adduced to show that 

 sewing by hand would not equal 40 stitches per minute; hence 

 that Howe's machine did work equal to that of seven hand-workers. 

 "It must be borne in mind that this is the work and capability 

 of the machine as Howe originally constructed it, and of the first 

 machine he made. It was, therefore, the work of his invention, un- 

 improved, unaltered, and untouched by others." 



(pp. 98-102.) The Development of the Sewing-Machine. 

 The quotation is from the Twelfth Census Report of the United 

 States, 1900, published Washington, 1902, vol. X., pp. 415-417. 



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