Baumwolle [Cotton]
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A German encyclopedia article on cotton from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (5th edition). It covers the botany of the genus Gossypium, cultivation regions and methods, harvesting and ginning, fiber structure and chemistry, and commercial grades by staple length and origin. It also gives a history of the cotton industry from antiquity to the 1890s, with statistical tables on production, consumption, spindles and looms by country, and a bibliography.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1897
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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