History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great BritainH. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835 - 544 من الصفحات |
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... wool and linen combined, though these have existed for centuries. Sixty years since, our manufacturers consumed little more than three million lbs. of raw cotton annually; the annual consumption is now two hundred and eighty million lbs ...
... wool and linen combined, though these have existed for centuries. Sixty years since, our manufacturers consumed little more than three million lbs. of raw cotton annually; the annual consumption is now two hundred and eighty million lbs ...
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... wool ; - to shew how far the trade has been interfered with by legis- lative enactments and fiscal regulations ; -to describe and illustrate the present state of the manufacture , and the condi- tion of the vast population engaged in ...
... wool ; - to shew how far the trade has been interfered with by legis- lative enactments and fiscal regulations ; -to describe and illustrate the present state of the manufacture , and the condi- tion of the vast population engaged in ...
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... wool , and silk . - Cotton - wool , its appearance and qualities.— Its recommendations for clothing , compared with linen , both in hot and cold climates 9 CHAPTER II . EARLY HISTORY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE . Spinning and Weaving ...
... wool , and silk . - Cotton - wool , its appearance and qualities.— Its recommendations for clothing , compared with linen , both in hot and cold climates 9 CHAPTER II . EARLY HISTORY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE . Spinning and Weaving ...
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... wool , in imitation of the foreign goods bearing those names . - Early importation of cotton - wool into England ; then used chiefly for candlewicks ; imported from Genoa , Sicily , the Levant , and Flanders . - Mercantile commission to ...
... wool , in imitation of the foreign goods bearing those names . - Early importation of cotton - wool into England ; then used chiefly for candlewicks ; imported from Genoa , Sicily , the Levant , and Flanders . - Mercantile commission to ...
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... wool imported from 1771 to 1790 ; from 1701 to 1800.— Exports of British manufactured cottons from 1701 to 1800 .-- Comparative rates of progression in the manufacture before and after the mechanical inven- tions . Estimated value of ...
... wool imported from 1771 to 1790 ; from 1701 to 1800.— Exports of British manufactured cottons from 1701 to 1800 .-- Comparative rates of progression in the manufacture before and after the mechanical inven- tions . Estimated value of ...
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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...