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Linen tester A grain of amber viewed through a linen tester. A linen tester is a strong magnifier with a measuring scale and a built-in stand. The linen tester was invented to check the quality of woven fabrics. It is used in the textile industry to measure the number of weft and warp threads within a certain area of fabric.
Eighteenth century cart balance at Fountains Lane, Soham. Large steelyard balances (known as cart balances), both public and private, were a common feature in agricultural areas in England from the eighteenth century forward. An example of a public cart steelyard remains at Soham, Cambridgeshire, and another is at Woodbridge, Suffolk. [6] [7] [8]
Threshing, retting and dressing flax at the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum. Heckling (or "hackling") is the last of three steps in dressing flax, or preparing the fibers to be spun.
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The balance (also balance scale, beam balance and laboratory balance) was the first mass measuring instrument invented. [1] In its traditional form, it consists of a pivoted horizontal lever with arms of equal length – the beam or tron – and a weighing pan [10] suspended from each arm (hence the plural name "scales " for a
The use of flax fibers dates back tens of millennia; [8] linen, a refined textile made from flax fibers, was worn widely by Sumerian priests more than 4,000 years ago. [51] Industrial-scale flax fiber processing existed in antiquity. A Bronze Age factory dedicated to flax processing was discovered in Euonymeia, Greece. [52]
Red River ox cart (1851), by Frank Blackwell Mayer. The Red River cart is a large two-wheeled cart made entirely of non-metallic materials. Often drawn by oxen, though also by horses or mules, these carts were used throughout most of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States, in the area of the Red River and on the plains west of the Red River ...
A shopping cart conveyor; also known as Vermaport, Cartveyor or shopping cart escalator; is a device used in multi-level retail stores for moving shopping carts parallel and adjacent to an escalator. Shoppers can load their shopping carts onto the conveyor, step onto the escalator, ride the escalator with the cart beside them and collect the ...