A Compendious History of Cotton Manufacture

ISBN-13: 9780714613963 / Angielski / Twarda / 1968 / 74 str.

Richard Guest

Opis

First published in 1823.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Richard Guest