Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: Duncan MacKenzie

From Graces Guide

39. MACKENZIE, DUNCAN, 31 Burton St., Tavistock Square.

Invention for frames and jacquard looms, including in one machine four different apparatus, namely — the reader, the press, the repeater, and the knife; facilitating labour and economising expense; reducing to mathematical exactness operations which have hitherto been matters of uncertainty, and enabling manufacturers to employ persons of ordinary care and attention to read, punch, and re-cut their designs or patterns with quickness and ease.

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