Machine Knits Socks by the Yard (Jul, 1934)
Machine Knits Socks by the Yard
SOCKS by the yard for the English foot are being turned out by a new machine whose finished product is not unlike a length of link sausage.
Speedy in operation, the knitting machine turns out the hose in a continuous length. The socks only require cutting apart before being packaged and put on the market.
So that’s why socks are known as hose?
Reminds me of an old Donald Duck comic, where his job was to press a button on a sock knitting machine every time, when a sock was at right length in order to cut it. And of course during a night shift, he fell asleep. The result was the longest sock in Duckburgs history.