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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP XXII. 5 opposite side of the series of ropes from that at which the first needle entered. This second needle is then caused to penetrate the series of ropes and carry with it the thread to be again passed back by the first needle. The next sewing-machine made its appearance at Vienna. For a record of this machine in the United States, see Kunst und Gewerbe- Blatt for 1817, pages 335-36. The following is a translation of a portion of the article : “ The following news is taken from No. 9 of the Royal Imperial privileged Vienna newspaper of the 12th of May of the present year (1817), about the ingenious and, in its future results, perhaps very important invention of Mr. Joseph Madersperger, in Vienna. . . . Joseph Madersperger, an ingenious native of Kuefstein, in Tyrol, and residing at present in Vienna, has already, several years ago, invented a power-machine which does all kinds of sewing work with a rapidity and accuracy far exceeding all hand-work. The approbation which his invention received everywhere has induced his Royal Imperial Majesty, in the year 1814, to give to the inventor an exclusive privi- lege (patent), which has already been mentioned before in these papers. Since that time Mr. Madersperger has still further perfected his invention, and his machine, that could only sew in a straight line, can now also sew crooked lines. The arrangement is completed for sewing half-circles of one inch diameter, and can, with slight changes, make small circles, egg-shaped forms, and angles of different degrees, and can also do all other kinds of sewing. The inventor has described his machine in a printed circular, and has set it up here for public exhibition. It is inclosed in a neat case, only the needle-carrier with the thread-feeder, the feed-plate with the stuff, and the crank being exposed to view. The whole machine is three feet three inches high, six inches wide, and five feet long. To keep thirteen to sixteen of these machines going, one person to change needles and lay on new stuffs and another person to set all the machines in operation with an exertion of three and one-half pounds, is quite sufficient. The inventor hopes also to simplify the whole machine still further in a short time.” In Karmarsch’s History of Technology, page 704, occurs the follow ing: “In Madersperger’s machine the stitches were made from both sides of the stuff, and he hence had to change the form of the needle, which he pointed at both ends, forming the eye in the centre. It moved vertically up and down, piercing alternately the top and bot tom of the stuff. This needle carried a thread about eighteen inches long, which had to be drawn in by the hand; and when, after about one hundred and thirty stitches, the thread was used up, the machine,