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| Picture No | 10006243 |
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| Description | Ernst Gessner, German textile innovator |
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Ernst Gessner (1826 - 1897), German innovator in textile manufacture. He invented the first pile and counter pile raising machine employing natural teasels, and developed a 24-roll raising machine using steel card wire, establishing the fundamentals of the raising process still employed today.
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| Source | Das Buch der Erfindungen, volume 8 page 284 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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