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 . egan tobuild a water frame of twenty-four spindles, two cardingmachines, and the drawing and roping frames necessary forthe spinners, and soon after added a frame of forty-eightspindles. Great secrecy was maintained while the ma-chinery was being made, shutters shielding the front win-dows and blinds covering the back windows. SylvanusBrown cut out the parts of the spinning machines afterSlater had chalked them out on the wood. Oziel Wilkinson, the clever blacks
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 . egan tobuild a water frame of twenty-four spindles, two cardingmachines, and the drawing and roping frames necessary forthe spinners, and soon after added a frame of forty-eightspindles. Great secrecy was maintained while the ma-chinery was being made, shutters shielding the front win-dows and blinds covering the back windows. SylvanusBrown cut out the parts of the spinning machines afterSlater had chalked them out on the wood. Oziel Wilkinson, the clever blacksmith of Pawtucket withwhom Slater boarded and whose daughter Hannah Slatermarried, made with his sons, under Slaters direction, theiron-work of the machines, while Pliny Ep,rl, of Leicester,made the cards. At first the cards would not work, and,when Slater pointed out the defect. Earl and he beatthem to the proper curve with a piece of grindstone. Thepower was supplied at the start by a wheel propelled by anold negro, Samuel Brunius Jenks, but later water powerwas installed. When Slater started his cards, the water wheel was so. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 173 exposed that it was frozen every night, and, as he could getno one to bear the cold of the water in order to break theice to start the wheel, he himself had to spend two or threehours before breakfast every morning doing the work. STARTS FIRST COTTON MELL WITH ARKWRIGHT S MACHINES IN AMERICA It took Slater longer than he anticipated to finish hisframes, so that it was not until Dec. 20,1790, that he startedthree cards, drawing and roving, and seventy-two spindlesin the clothiers shop of Carpenter at Pawtucket, wherethe machines were set up and driven by an old fullingwater wheel. The cotton in Slaters time was laid by hand, a handfulof it being taken up and pulled apart with both was shifted to the right hand to get the staple straightand to fix the handful so as to hold it firm. Then it wasapplied to the surface of th
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