. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. to Hargreavess house, and destroyed hisjenny. So great was the persecution he suffered, andthe danger in which he was placed, that this victim ofpopular ignorance was compelled to flee his nativecounty, as the inventor of the fly-shu
. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. to Hargreavess house, and destroyed hisjenny. So great was the persecution he suffered, andthe danger in which he was placed, that this victim ofpopular ignorance was compelled to flee his nativecounty, as the inventor of the fly-shuttle had been beforehim. Thus the neighbourhood where the machine wasinvented, lost the benefit of it, yet without preventingits general adoption;—the common and appropriatepunishment of the ignorance and selfishness whichoppose mechanical improvements. Hargreaves retired to Nottingham in 1768, where heentered into partnership with Mr. Thomas James, ajoiner, who raised sufficient money to enable them toerect a small mill. He took out a patent for thejenny in 1770, the year after Arkwright had obtainedhis patent at the same place. The patent was for amethod of making a wheel or engine of an entire newconstruction, and never before made use of, in order forspinning, drawing, and twisting of cotton, and to bemanaged by one person only, and that the wheel or. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 159 engine will spin, draw, and twist sixteen or more threadsat one time, by a turn or motion of one hand, and adraw of the other. The following is the inventorsdescription of the process,— One person, with his orher right hand turns the wheel, and with the left handtakes hold of the clasps, and therewith draws out thecotton from the slubbin box; and, being twisted by theturn of the wheel in the drawing out, then a piece ofwood is lifted up by the toe, which lets down a presserwire, so as to press the threads so drawn out and twisted,in order to wind or put the same regularly upon bobbinswhich are p
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