Cotton Spinning
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Second edition (1898) of a cotton spinning textbook by William Whittam Jr., presenting the City and Guilds of London May 1889 examination questions with detailed answers for Ordinary and Honors grades. It covers opening, scutching, carding, drawing, slubbing, roving, spinning, doubling, cotton varieties, and buying terms. An appendix treats cone drums and gives rules and worked examples for draughts, constants, gear calculations, costs, and mill statistics, along with a glossary of Lancashire terms. The back of the volume holds numerous advertisements for American textile mill architects, machinery makers, and humidifier firms.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1898
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 122
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