Volume 2 of Andrew Ure's account of the British cotton industry, published in 1836. It describes the machinery and processes of the cotton mill in detail: cleaning, scutching and lapping, carding, drawing, roving frames, throstle and mule spinning (including the self-acting mule), reeling, gassing, doubling and twisting. It then covers warping, dressing and sizing, hand and power-loom weaving (including Sharp and Roberts' loom), and fustian cutting. It also treats the bobbin-net lace machine and its history in connection with the stocking frame. The last part (Book IV) gives statistics on the industry, the bobbin-net trade, cotton and yarn prices, and wages. The text is illustrated with many engravings and line drawings of machines, and has tables of calculations and statistics.

Type

Book

Date

1836

Language

English

Pages

465