Cotton
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A 16-page encyclopaedia article on cotton, covering its botany, history, growing regions and trade, and the mechanical processes of cotton manufacture. It describes roller and saw gins, pickers and batting machines, carding engines, drawing and roving frames, mule spinning, reeling, warping, bleaching and stoving, and hydrostatic presses for calico printing. It also surveys the cotton industries of England, France and Switzerland, the muslin trade, and includes import statistics tables and engraved plates of machinery.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1829
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 16
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