Cotton Manufacturing
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Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.) article on the economic and industrial history of cotton manufacture, covering its origins in Europe and England, the fustian trade of 17th-century Lancashire, and the organization of hand weaving, warping and the putting-out system. It treats the mechanical inventions (Arkwright's water-frame, the mule, Roberts's self-actor, Cartwright's power loom), the localization of spinning and weaving in Lancashire, labour and wages, and the industry's growth in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, China, Japan and elsewhere. Many statistical tables on operatives, spindles, looms and cotton consumption are included, and a bibliography closes the article.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 21
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