Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, During the Years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803 #226560

The manufacture of needles astonished me. A bundle of steel wires was thrown into a wheel, which, at one turn, threw them out on the Opposite side, cut into a number of pieces of the proper length: these were caught in a basket by a boy, who handed them to a person whose business it was to form the eyes and aha-pen the points, both of which he efl'ected by machinery in the shortest time imaginable.