Cotton Manufactures
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
A 1872 article from a multi-volume work on American industries giving a historical overview of cotton manufacture. It covers ancient cotton cloth in Egypt, India and China, how cotton is grown and ginned, and the inventions of Wyatt, Arkwright, Hargreaves, Crompton, Roberts and Whitney that mechanized spinning and weaving. It closes with the share of the U.S. crop manufactured domestically, thread count as a measure of fabric quality, and a comparison of American and English mills.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »