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 . POWER LOOM (SIDE VIEW).{See page 807.) INDUSTRY TRANSFORMED. 807 would not sell to a foreiacner, and a yreat nieetingr of masterspinners was held at Manchester in 1800 to consider whatwas to be done. The difficulty was to get the cotton yarnmade up. From 1770 to 1788, says Radcliffe, Cotton, cotton,cotton was become the almost universal material for employ-ment ; the hand wheels were thrown into the lumber r
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 . POWER LOOM (SIDE VIEW).{See page 807.) INDUSTRY TRANSFORMED. 807 would not sell to a foreiacner, and a yreat nieetingr of masterspinners was held at Manchester in 1800 to consider whatwas to be done. The difficulty was to get the cotton yarnmade up. From 1770 to 1788, says Radcliffe, Cotton, cotton,cotton was become the almost universal material for employ-ment ; the hand wheels were thrown into the lumber rooms;the new spinning machinery adopted in its stead. But evenstill the hand wheel lins^ered on. Radcliffe instances the. POWEE LOOM (FROXT VIKW). (Dnines, History of the County Palatine of Lancashire, ) Tomlinsons, four or live orphan sisters, the youngest upwardsof forty; they had a complete sjiinnery, consisting of two pairsof cards and live hand wheels, by which they more than paid therent of their farm. On this they kept three cows, one horse,and always ploughed a field, and were celebrated for butter andeggs. One of the sisters was still struggling on in 1822. Suchestablishments were, as a rule, speedily overcome by the com-petition of machine spinning. Weavers set up everyAvhere. Oldbarns, carthouses, outbuildino-s of every description, were repaired(windows being broken through the old blank walls) and fittedup for loom shops. New cottages sprang up. Every familybrought home 40s., 60s., , 100s., or even 120s. a week. Theimprovement in the standard of comfort was manifest. Themen went to church in good clothes. Every cottage had aclock; plated tea services were common. This was the gold
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