Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . years Avere being usedmore and more ; the jenny, thewater frame, the mule had be-come almost universal. Kellyhad been trying to apply powerto the mule, and, although hewas not completely successful,he enabled one man to watch two machines. Puddling androlling were widely used in the iron works, cylinder printingbecame general. The power-loom and the combing machinewere coming into use, though somewhat slowly
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . years Avere being usedmore and more ; the jenny, thewater frame, the mule had be-come almost universal. Kellyhad been trying to apply powerto the mule, and, although hewas not completely successful,he enabled one man to watch two machines. Puddling androlling were widely used in the iron works, cylinder printingbecame general. The power-loom and the combing machinewere coming into use, though somewhat slowly. The power-loom was an unpopular machine with the men,but this is not the true reason of its tardy acceptance. AsCartwright made it, it embodied a magnificent idea, but wasa very defective machine. It was clumsy, and it was slow,because it was necessary to stop it continually in order todress the war]3. The credit of overcoming this difficulty must be dividedbetween Johnson, a workman at Stockport, and AVilliamRadcliffe, his employer, who found the money for Johnsonsexperiments. Radcliffe was a public-spirited man, who ob-jected to seeing English cotton twist exported. He himself. POWER LOOM (SIDE VIEW).{See page 807.) INDUSTRY TRANSFORMED. 807 would not sell to a foreiacner, and a yreat nieetingr of masterspinners was held at Manchester in 1800 to consider whatwas to be done. The difficulty was to get the cotton yarnmade up. From 1770 to 1788, says Radcliffe, Cotton, cotton,cotton was become the almost universal material for employ-ment ; the hand wheels were thrown into the lumber rooms;the new spinning machinery adopted in its stead. But evenstill the hand wheel lins^ered on. Radcliffe instances the
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