A Compendious History of Cotton ManufactureRoutledge, 05.11.2013 - 104 Seiten This history, first published in 1823, also includes a ‘disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery’. It includes sections on the national and general importance of cotton manufacture, developments in the methods of spinning and weaving, key inventions, and the changes in the character of the cotton workers. |
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Improved Methods of Management and Disposal of Manufactured Goods | |
Invention of the Spinning Jenny | |
Invention of the Water Frame or Throstle | |
The Carding Engine | |
Some Account of the Life of Sir Richard Arkwright | |
Misstatements of the foregoing Facts | |
Invention of the Mule and Exportation of Twist | |
Change of Character and Manners in the Population superinduced by the extension of the Cotton Manufacture | |
Moral and Religious Character of Weavers | |
The Steam Loom | |
Appendix No 1 The Statement of Thomas Leather | |
Certificate of the Burial of Mary Leather No 3 Evidence of Thomas Highs | |
Evidence of John | |
Evidence of Sarah | |
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