suited to running our swift motion machinery, and they were therefore
abandoned as impracticable.

Mr. Roullier then introduced his invention into England, where he met
with some success, as his belt was better suited to English slow motion
machinery.

These belts are now largely used in England, many good improvements have
been made in them, and almost every belt maker in Great Britain
manufactures them.

Mr. Jabez Oldfield, of Glasgow, has the reputation of making the best
and most reliable link belt in Great Britain. He has also the reputation
of being the originator of these belts. This is, however, an error, the
credit of the invention belonging, as we have said, to Mr. Roullier.

Mr. Oldfield, nevertheless, has invented many useful machines for
cutting and assorting the links. He has also introduced improved methods
for putting the links together.

For more than twenty years after Mr. Roullier's visit, nothing was done
with leather link belting in this country.

In 1882, however, Mr. N.W. Hall, of Newark, N.J., patented a link belt,
composed of leather and steel links. His method was to place a steel
link after every third or fourth leather one, in order to strengthen the
belt. In practical use this belt was found to be very defective, because
the leather links soon stretched, and thus all the work had to be done
by the steel links. The whole strain coming thus upon the steel links,
they in course of time cut through the bolts and thus broke the belt to