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 . ngland 250,000 hand-looms. In1834, when the power-looms in England numbered 100,000,a committee was appointed by the House of Commons to in-quire into the impoverished condition of the hand-loom had been represented to the House that the trade hadfallen off and the workers were reduced to destitution. Theevidence given left no doubt whatever of the terrible stateof this once prosperous trade. The
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 . ngland 250,000 hand-looms. In1834, when the power-looms in England numbered 100,000,a committee was appointed by the House of Commons to in-quire into the impoverished condition of the hand-loom had been represented to the House that the trade hadfallen off and the workers were reduced to destitution. Theevidence given left no doubt whatever of the terrible stateof this once prosperous trade. The finer and more skilledbranches still survived in eomparativc prosperity, but theweavers of such floods as conunon cotton shirtings could nolonger earn a livinsj, and those who could turn to no otheremployment had become miserably poor. The fact was that259 98 PEACE, RETREXCHMEXT, AND REFORM. their trade was already dead, killed bj the extraordinary pro-ductive power ot the steam loom. Each power-loom cDuldturn out more cloth than a hand-loom, and at the same timeone weaver could attend several looms. Thus in power-loomweavin<^- one man could ]irodnco from six to eight times more. The Jacquard Loom. THE .llIAll.^TLS. {Victoria and Albert Mu^icum.) cloth than when employed upon hand work, rrodnction thuscheapened naturally led to increased consumption, and thusreacted upon the spinniny trade, which became exceedinglyprosperous. In l< .S2,()()<),000 lbs. of cotton were imported,and by 1830 the im])ort had grown steadily, until in that yearit reached 247,000,000, The years between bSl.) and ls:50 were marked l)y con-tinuous advance in construction and in invention, both in THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, lUla-lSot. 99 weaving and in spinning machinery. In 1820 the first mentionof the .Jacqiiard machine appears in the patent list. It was thisinvention which rendered possible the of the powerdooin forgoods of really complex patterns, and its introduction into t
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