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OCR: INDUSTRY Leonardo IS said to have learned the textile trade as young man in Florence SHEARING He invented many machines improve MAGHIN the efficiency of prod luction. From one of his textile machi ines, he hoped make 60 000 ducats year. his machine to cut the nap off woolen cloth was meant to replace men using enormous scissors Four strips of fabric are stretched on a wooden frame and the nap is cut au tomatically by shears in When Eng land similar in the machine 18th century was invented many STRY workers lost their jobs INDUS "Though human ingenuity may make various inventions T1 wil never devise any inventions more beautiful nor more simple nor more 10 the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing wanting, and nothing superfl uous 1996 SoftKev Multimedia Inc. subsidiar ...