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A compendious history of cotton manufacture / Richard Guest

By: Series: Cass library of industrial classics. No.16 Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016Description: 70 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781138976177
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 677.21  GUE
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Contents

chapter 1.
National and general importance of cotton manufacture

chapter II
Early modes of spinning and weaving

chapter III
Improved methods of management and disposal of manufactured cottons

chapter IV
Invention of the spinning jenny

chapter V
Invention of the water frame, or Throstle

chapter VI
The carding engine

chapter VII
Some account of the life of sir Richard Arkwright

chapter VIII
Mis-statements of foregoing facts

chapter IX
Invention of the mule and exportation of twist

chapter X
Change of character and manners, in the population by the extension of the cotton manufacture

chapter XI
Moral and religious character of weavers

chapter XII
The steam loom

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