The Scholfield Wool-Carling Machines

Grace Rogers Cooper was a textile expert and vexillogist who served many years as a curator for the Smithsonian Institution. She is known primarily for her published works Thirteen-Star Flags: Keys to Identification and The Invention of the Sewing Machine. In The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines, Cooper chronicles the invention and implementation of the wool-carding machine—a development that ignited the Industrial Revolution and changed the face of textile production. Read on to learn more about this fascinating invention. 

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