Title

The late Mr. Evan Leigh, C.E., 1876. Creator: Unknown.

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The late Mr. Evan Leigh, C.E., 1876. British engineer and '...author of some useful inventions for the improvement of the machinery of cotton manufacture...Another subject in which Mr. Leigh took an interest was transporting railway trains on ship-board...In 1871 Mr. Leigh published a work in which...he gave the results of nearly half a century of practical experience of mills and mill machinery. It was published...under the following explanatory title : "The Science of Modern Cotton-Spinning, embracing Mill Architecture, Machinery for Cotton Ginning, Opening, Scutching, Preparing, and Spinning, with all the latest improvements; also articles on Steam and Water Power, Boilers, Boiler Explosions, &c., all tending to show where the outlay of capital may be economised, and production cheapened." From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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HRM23A81_073

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