. 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. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 235 factory.* Horrocks, sharing the common destiny of inven-tors, failed, and sunk into poverty. This retarded theadoption of the machine; but, independently of this, thepower-loom and dressing-machine came ve
. 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. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 235 factory.* Horrocks, sharing the common destiny of inven-tors, failed, and sunk into poverty. This retarded theadoption of the machine; but, independently of this, thepower-loom and dressing-machine came very slowly intofavour. In 1813, there were not more than one hundredof the latter machines, and 2400 of the former in this was enough to alarm the hand-loom weavers,who, attributing to machinery the distress caused bythe Orders in Council and the American war, maderiotous opposition to all new machines, and broke thepower-looms set up at West Houghton, Middleton, andother places. Nevertheless, the great value of thepower-loom having now been proved, it was adopted bymany manufacturers, both in England and Scotland \and it will, no doubt, in time supersede the rapidity with which the power-loom is coming intouse is proved by the following table, the particulars ofwhich were stated by R. A. Slaney, Esq., , in thohouse of commons, on
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