"Needlelike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... straightening the fibers (see fig. 4). After the fibers were carded, the concave section was lowered and the fibers were stripped off by hand with a needle stick, an implement resembling a comb with very fine needlelike metal teeth. Though his machine was far from perfect. Lewis Paul had invented the carding cylinder working with stationary cards and ...
— The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines • Grace L. Rogers |
