Invention of Roller Drawing in Cotton Spinning
Sample pages
Page 16, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
A paper read at the Birmingham Free Reference Library on 16 June 1921 tracing the invention of roller drawing, the principle behind cotton spinning machinery. It compares the claims of Lewis Paul and John Wyatt (patents of 1738 and 1758) with those of Richard Arkwright (1769). It draws on the Wyatt manuscripts, John Dyer's poem 'The Fleece', and testimony from the Arkwright patent trials, and concludes that Arkwright was the true inventor of the working roller drawing system. It includes biographical material on Paul, Wyatt, Arkwright and Jedediah Strutt, a transcribed 1772 Arkwright letter to Strutt, and four plates of spinning machine drawings.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- June 16, 1921
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 19
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »