A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture
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A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture

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  2. English
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A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture

About this book

This volume contains a look at the cotton-manufacture industry in relation to a disapproval of a claim of Sir Richard Arkwright invention of ingenious machinery, initially published in 1823.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780714613864
eBook ISBN
9781136237621
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS.
  6. CHAPTER I.: National and general Importance of the Cotton Manufacture
  7. CHAPTER II.: Early Modes of Spinning and Weaving
  8. CHAPTER III.: Improved Methods of Management and Disposal of Manufactured Cottons
  9. CHAPTER IV.: Invention of the Spinning Jenny
  10. CHAPTER V.: Invention of the Water Frame, or Throstle
  11. CHAPTER VI.: The Carding Engine
  12. CHAPTER VII.: Some Account of the Life of Sir Richard Arkwright
  13. CHAPTER VIII.: Mis-statements of the foregoing Facts
  14. CHAPTER IX.: Invention of the Mule and Exportation of Twist
  15. CHAPTER X.: Change of Character and Manners, in the Population, superinduced by the extension of the Cotton Manufacture
  16. CHAPTER XI.: Moral and Religious Character of Weavers
  17. CHAPTER XII.: The Steam Loom
  18. APPENDIX:—No. 1. The Statement of Thomas Leather
  19. No. 2. Certificate of the Burial of Mary Leather
  20. No. 3. Evidence of Thomas Highs
  21. No. 4. Evidence of John Kay
  22. No. 5. Evidence of Sarah Kay

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