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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CONTENTS | 2 |
National and general Importance of the Cotton Manufacture | 3 |
Early Modes of Spinning and Weawing | 6 |
Improved Methods of Management and Disposal of Manufactured Cottono | 10 |
Invention of the Spinning Jenny | 12 |
Invention of the Water Frame or Throstle | 16 |
The Carding Engine | 18 |
Some Account of the Life of Sir Richard Arkwright | 20 |
Misstatements of the foregoing Facts | 29 |
Invention of the Mule and Emportation of Twist | 31 |
Change of Character and Manners in the Population superinduced by tlte extension of the Cotton Manufacture | 36 |
Moral and Religious Charcter of Weavers | 40 |
The Steam Loom | 44 |
APPENDIX | 53 |
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