The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . ich John Monteith adopted in 1801, and equippeda mill at Glasgow with two hundred looms. Still anotherloom was invented by Mr. Toad, of Bolton, in 1803. Theloom which William Horrocks, of Stockport, England, pat-ented in 1803, 1805, and improved in 1813, was the firstto come into general use, and was known as the crank, orScotch, loom. It was probably the kind that Francis , of Boston, saw, and which led to his working outlater the first practical loom i
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . ich John Monteith adopted in 1801, and equippeda mill at Glasgow with two hundred looms. Still anotherloom was invented by Mr. Toad, of Bolton, in 1803. Theloom which William Horrocks, of Stockport, England, pat-ented in 1803, 1805, and improved in 1813, was the firstto come into general use, and was known as the crank, orScotch, loom. It was probably the kind that Francis , of Boston, saw, and which led to his working outlater the first practical loom in America, the story of whichis told later. As early as 1806 T. M. Mussey had built aloom at Exeter, , which would weave, but was notpractical commercially. The dressing machine, out of which grew the dandyloom, that was necessary to the economical operation ofthe loom, was worked out by Thomas Johnson, of Bred-bury, an ingenious weaver in the employ of Messrs. Rad-cliffe and Ross, of Stockport, England. William RadcKffe,who was alarmed by the exportation of cotton yarn,conceived that the only way to prevent the exportation. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 107 was for the English to excel in weaving. He finally, onJan. 2, 1802, called about him a number of his workmen,among whom was Thomas Johnson, an ingenious but dissi-pated young man, and explained to them his needs. Soversatile were Johnsons expedients to compass the re-quired invention that his fellow-workmen called him theconjurer. Johnsons ability and Radcliffes perseveranceproduced the ingenious dandy loom, by which the warpcould be dressed before it was put on the loom, and pro-vided for the taking up of the cloth and drawing forwardof the warp, so that the loom did not have to be stoppedfor the cloth to be moved on. The warp was thus broughtwithin play of the shuttle. Radcliffe and his partner, Ross, in 1803 and 1804 tookout patents for taking up the cloth by motion of the lathe,and also for new methods of warping and dress
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