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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Sir Thomas Lombe's new machine for working Italian organzine silk erected at Derby [England] contains virt' by Thomas Lombe</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Lombe writes that the machine works 73,728 yards of silk in every revolution of the water wheel, which is three times a minute.

Subject: Engineering / Industry

Read to the Royal Society on 22 January 1729</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1729</dc:date>
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