History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great BritainH. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835 - 544 من الصفحات |
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... appears to have been unknown to them . Until modern times , therefore , nearly all the evi- dence is negative , with the exception of the reports brought by adventurous travellers , or gleaned by inqui- sitive naturalists . Of the four ...
... appears to have been unknown to them . Until modern times , therefore , nearly all the evi- dence is negative , with the exception of the reports brought by adventurous travellers , or gleaned by inqui- sitive naturalists . Of the four ...
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... appears to have been indigenous in Egypt , and probably in other countries ; the sheep is supposed to be a native of the mountainous ranges of Asia ; * the silk - worm was given to China ; and the cotton - plant to India and America ...
... appears to have been indigenous in Egypt , and probably in other countries ; the sheep is supposed to be a native of the mountainous ranges of Asia ; * the silk - worm was given to China ; and the cotton - plant to India and America ...
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... appears , from the testimony both of sacred and profane history , that linen continued to be almost the only kind of clothing used in Egypt till after the Christian era . ‡ The Egyptians exported their " linen yarn , " and " fine linen ...
... appears , from the testimony both of sacred and profane history , that linen continued to be almost the only kind of clothing used in Egypt till after the Christian era . ‡ The Egyptians exported their " linen yarn , " and " fine linen ...
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... appears , that the Arab traders brought Indian cottons to Aduli , a port of the Red Sea ; that the ports beyond the Red Sea had an established trade with Patala , ( on the Indus , ) Ariake , and Barygaza , ( the modern Baroche , on the ...
... appears , that the Arab traders brought Indian cottons to Aduli , a port of the Red Sea ; that the ports beyond the Red Sea had an established trade with Patala , ( on the Indus , ) Ariake , and Barygaza , ( the modern Baroche , on the ...
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... appears that the growth and manu- facture of cotton had , at the Christian era , extended to Persia and Egypt ; and also that the delicate fabrics of India , including muslins and calicoes , both plain and figured , were brought by ...
... appears that the growth and manu- facture of cotton had , at the Christian era , extended to Persia and Egypt ; and also that the delicate fabrics of India , including muslins and calicoes , both plain and figured , were brought by ...
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amount Arkwright average bleaching bobbins Bolton branch Britain British calico printing capital carding cent century Charles Wyatt classes cloth colour commerce cotton exports cotton manufacture cotton mills Cotton spinning cotton trade cotton-wool cylinder declared value Derbyshire duty dyeing earnings Egypt employment Encyclopædia Britannica engine England English engraved estimate extensive fabrics facture fibres flax frame fustians Glasgow hand hand-loom weavers Hargreaves imported improvement increase India industry invention inventor James Hargreaves jenny Lancashire Lewis Paul linen loom machinery Manchester manu manufacture of cotton mechanical mentioned mule muslins nearly Nottingham number of persons obtained operatives patent persons employed piece power-loom present produced profits proportion quantity raw material roving Scotland shew silk spindles spinners spinning machines spun steam steam-engine thread tion Total number town twist wages warp water-frame weaving weft wheel whole wool woollen workmen Wyatt yard yarn
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الصفحة 4 - And all the women that were wisehearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
الصفحة 85 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and...
الصفحة 182 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits ; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage, because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.
الصفحة 210 - In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time.
الصفحة 4 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver. And of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.
الصفحة 122 - In the year 1730, or thereabouts, living then at a village near Litchfield, our respected father first conceived the project, and prepared to carry it into effect ; and in the year 1733, by a model of about two feet square, in a small building near Sutton Coldfield, without a single witness to the performance, was spun the first thread of cotton ever produced without the intervention of the human fingers, — he, the inventor, to use his own words, ' being- all the time in a pleasing but trembling...
الصفحة 316 - ... eight hands to prepare and spin yarn of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person, from the age of seven to eighty years (who retained their sight and could move their hands,) to earn their bread, say one to three shillings per week, without going to the parish.
الصفحة 178 - Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line: Slow, with soft lips, the whirling Can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move, And these retain, and those extend the rove; Then fly the spoles, the rapid axles glow, And slowly cireumvolves the labouring wheel below.
الصفحة 182 - The most marked traits in the character of Arkwright were his wonderful ardour, energy, and perseverance. He commonly laboured in his multifarious concerns from five o'clock in the morning till nine at night ; and when considerably more than fifty years of age, feeling that the defects of his education placed him under great difficulty and inconvenience in conducting his correspondence, and in the general management of his business, he encroached upon his sleep, in order to gain an hour each day...
الصفحة 110 - Feather shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed by an instrument in writing...