History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great BritainH. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835 - 544 من الصفحات |
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Sir Edward Baines. it has recently taken , its crawling progress in all former times . The review of the early history of the manufacture will necessarily be brief . No materials exist for making it otherwise . Whilst the writers of ...
Sir Edward Baines. it has recently taken , its crawling progress in all former times . The review of the early history of the manufacture will necessarily be brief . No materials exist for making it otherwise . Whilst the writers of ...
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... former charter , dated A. D. 1102 , and stated to be written on cotton paper ( “ charta cuttunea . " ) But as the Europeans both learned the art of making cotton paper from the Arabs , and received their cotton - wool from countries ...
... former charter , dated A. D. 1102 , and stated to be written on cotton paper ( “ charta cuttunea . " ) But as the Europeans both learned the art of making cotton paper from the Arabs , and received their cotton - wool from countries ...
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... former , ( most strikingly illustrated by the fact that the silk manufacture , which flourished in Andalusia in the tenth century , was not known in Catalonia till the fifteenth , ) we find the celebrated commercial city of Barcelona ...
... former , ( most strikingly illustrated by the fact that the silk manufacture , which flourished in Andalusia in the tenth century , was not known in Catalonia till the fifteenth , ) we find the celebrated commercial city of Barcelona ...
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... former . Venice , Genoa , and Pisa carried on nearly all their foreign commerce with Greece , Constantinople , and the Syrian and Phenician towns conquered by the Crusaders ; and thus the Italians received from the East , arts which had ...
... former . Venice , Genoa , and Pisa carried on nearly all their foreign commerce with Greece , Constantinople , and the Syrian and Phenician towns conquered by the Crusaders ; and thus the Italians received from the East , arts which had ...
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Sir Edward Baines. are viewed together , it appears highly probable that the former was the effect of the latter . But when we ob- serve the sudden and marvellous extension of the trade since the invention of the spinning machines , not ...
Sir Edward Baines. are viewed together , it appears highly probable that the former was the effect of the latter . But when we ob- serve the sudden and marvellous extension of the trade since the invention of the spinning machines , not ...
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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...