[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Approximately 3 minutes before seeing this thread, I was wondering what kind of machinery they used to make machines back in the 1850s. I just finished up a reading about Lowell, MA's huge textile mills, and to make such (relatively) precise machinery on such a scale is a huge feat for the time period.

Greg,
I had a job last year in Lowell and took part of day and visited the museum complex. You need to get over there some time and see and HEAR the spinning machines in action to get a feel for what it was like. The amazing part was that everything was run by water power and the town is designed around canals used to divert river water to the mills.