A Compendious History of Cotton Manufacture

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Routledge, 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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