File:History of Inventions USNM 30 Shuttle.png
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English: No. 1. Primitive shuttle. Twig of osiGr, vvitli tliread simply wound about it,
151,738 No. 2. Wooden rod with weft wound diagonally about it. No. 3. Shuttle or antler, pronged at each end. Eskimos of Norton Sound 33,266 No. 4. Rag-carpet shuttle. A block of wood notched roughly at each end and used iu the domestic hand loom for weaving carpet of rags, coarse chain of jute, cotton, and otlier materials. No. 5. Japanese shuttle. Pronged at one end, closed at the other, with " skewer " in the opening 19,408 No. 6. Eskimo shuttle. Prongs at either end, approaching each other and pointed 163.781 No. 7. Hupa shuttle. Slender shaft, prongs at the ends, approaching like the beak of a bird. California 131,151 No. 8. African shuttle. Body toggle-shaped ; bobbin a simple cylinder of wood revolving on a splint of palm-leaf stem. Liberia 168,079 No. 9. Hand-loom shuttle. Body toggle-shaped ; bobbin a hollow reed working on a splint of hard wood 7,688 No. 10. Early machine shuttle, of several pieces of wood and iron pointed ; open on both faces ; bobbin a strip segment of bamboo running on a splint of wood 153,172 |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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