Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: Library of Industrial Classics.
ISBN: 978-0-7146-1396-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This history, first published in 1823, also includes a ‘disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery’. It includes sections on the national and general importance of cotton manufacture, developments in the methods of spinning and weaving, key inventions, and the changes in the character of the cotton workers.
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Chapter 1 National and General Importance of the Cotton Manufacture; Chapter 2 Early Modes of Spinning and Weaving; Chapter 3 Improved Methods of Management and Disposal of Manufactured Goods; Chapter 4 Invention of the Spinning Jenny; Chapter 5 Invention of the Water Frame, or Throstle; Chapter 6 The Carding Engine; Chapter 7 Some Account of the Life of Sir Richard Arkwright; Chapter 8 Mis-statements of the foregoing Facts; Chapter 9 Invention of the Mule and Exportation of Twist; Chapter 10 Change of Character and Manners, in the Population, superinduced by the extension of the Cotton Manufacture; Chapter 11 Moral and Religious Character of Weavers; Chapter 12 The Steam Loom;
