. 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. Fio. 4. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 179 inventor of the crank and comb; the smith, too, mayhave made it from Hargreavess directions; and theother cotton spinners may have used it before Ark-wright took out his patent: and still Arkwright
. 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. Fio. 4. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 179 inventor of the crank and comb; the smith, too, mayhave made it from Hargreavess directions; and theother cotton spinners may have used it before Ark-wright took out his patent: and still Arkwright mayhave been the inventor, and his workmen may havecommunicated it to others, as one of them evidently didto Hargreaves and his partner. Mr. Wood used a fluted roller armed with needles, todoff the cotton; and both this contrivance and themetallic comb seem to have had their prototype in the needle-sticks of Lewis Paul; but experience hasdecided in favour of the crank and comb as the bestapparatus. By these several inventions and improvements thecarding engine was perfected. It became a mostimportant, as well as beautiful machine. At one end ofit the cotton-wool was put in, an entangled and knottedmass, the fibres lying in every direction; and at theother end the wool came out an even, delicate film,with the fibres straightened, and that film immediatelycompresse
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