Cotton
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A two-page encyclopedia article on the cotton manufacturing industry. It surveys the history of cotton spinning and weaving, the 18th-century inventions (fly-shuttle, spinning jenny, water-frame, mule, power loom, cotton gin), and the successive machine processes from opening and carding to ring spinning. It closes with statistics on spindles, looms, output and employment in Britain and the United States, drawn from the 1890 census.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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