Knitting Machines
Pioneer of machine knitting was the Rev. William Lee who in 1589 invented a frame which did 600 stitches a minute. The world’s fastest knitting is still on a British machine which completes 2,350,000 loops a minute.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7100, 29 August 1949, Page 5
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39Knitting Machines Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7100, 29 August 1949, Page 5
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