Cotton
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An encyclopedia article on cotton from Chambers's Encyclopedia. It covers the botany and commercial classes of the Gossypium species, cultivation, and the history of the cotton trade in the United States, India, Brazil, Egypt and Europe. It also covers the British cotton manufacture, including the inventions of Wyatt, Arkwright, Hargreaves, Crompton and Cartwright, as well as the effects of the American Civil War and the cotton famine. It includes a botanical illustration and statistical tables of imports, consumption, exports and prices.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1881
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 10
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