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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP XXII. 53 nation lathes and chucks, depthing and jeweling tools, etc., exhibited by several American and foreign firms. The following were considered worthy of special mention, and ex hibited great accuracy and beauty of workmanship, as well as ingeni ous adaptation to the purposes intended. None of them were shown in use or in motion. The exhibitors were: John Stark, Waltham, Massachusetts, U. S. American Watch-Tool Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, U. S. St. Vautier & Sons, Carouge, Switzerland. Louis Borel-petitpierre, Couvet, Neuchatel, Switzerland. KNITTING-MACHINES. BY G. W. GREGORY. The exhibition of knitting-machines was not as full and complete as it should have been, and fell far short of representing the state of the art in the United States and Europe, specially in “power machines.” The art of machine-knitting dates from about the year 1589, when the first machine was invented by William A. Lee, A.M., of St. John's College, Cambridge, England. The first machine is believed to have been established near Nottingham, England; but Lee, receiving but little encouragement at home, transferred his machines to France, and the manufacture of hosiery by power was not again carried on in England until about 1640. Knight’s Mechanical Dictionary contains a very carefully-prepared article on the subject of knitting. It states that cotton stockings were first knit by hand about 1730- Most stockings now worn are in whole, or in part, of cotton. The comparatively recent machines for domestic use, adapted to knit both circular and flat webs by a narrowing and widening process, were well represented and exhibited by competent operators. The great knitting centres of the United States are at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Cohoes, New York, and thereabouts, and in various villages in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. New Jersey contains one large corporation located at New Brunswick, at which place American machines produce goods equal to the best of foreign manu facture. The Lamb Knitting-Machine Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass. This company exhibited their “ family machine,” employing two parallel rows of latched needles, separated sufficiently to permit the