Cotton
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Three pages from the Encyclopaedia Perthensis entry on cotton, covering the end of the discussion of cotton varieties and trade, packing raw cotton in the Antilles, and the cotton manufacture. It describes carding (flock cards and cylinder cards), cotton mills, and spinning machines including Hargreaves' jenny, Arkwright's water frame and the mule. It closes with statistics on the British cotton industry from 1781 to 1787, covering mill investment, spindle counts, raw cotton consumed and the competition from East India Company goods.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1803
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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