Cotton Trade and Consumption
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An encyclopedia article titled "Cotton Manufacture" covering the history of cotton cloth making from antiquity in India, China, Egypt, Spain and Italy to its establishment in England. It describes the inventions of Hargreaves, Arkwright, Crompton, Cartwright, Radcliffe and Roberts, then walks through the mill processes: mixing, scutching or willowing, carding, drawing, roving, throstle and mule spinning, reeling and thread making. Engravings show the spinning jenny, Arkwright's frame, drawing and roving machines, the throstle and the self-acting mule. It closes with yarn prices, patent counts and a description of the Lancashire cotton mills.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1867
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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