Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . position taken by the cotton ginamong the developing agents of the cottongrowing States. It has rendered possibleand profitable the cultivation of large dis-tricts of otherwise waste lands ; it has stim-ulated cotton production ; given employmentto thousands of idle hands; cheapened theprice of c
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . position taken by the cotton ginamong the developing agents of the cottongrowing States. It has rendered possibleand profitable the cultivation of large dis-tricts of otherwise waste lands ; it has stim-ulated cotton production ; given employmentto thousands of idle hands; cheapened theprice of cotton cloths, and placed withinthe reach of the humblest people wearingapparel of fine and beautiful texture. Unlimited supply of raw material beingthus provided, attention reverted to perfect-ing the machines for spinning it, and underthe magical touch of Richard Roberts, ofManchester, England, in 1830, the crudemule of Crompton took practical shape. He gave to it the quadrant windingmotion, provided for the harmonious working of the counter and coppingfaller wires, perfected the backing off and drawing up mechanisms, andgave attention to construction of details that placed the mule before theworld as a practical success. Equipped in its present form, the self-acting mule presents one of the. SPINNING WHEEL. THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 127 most striking examples of complex automatic mechanisms that can be foundin the industrial world. The work of the attendant is confined to piecingbroken ends and supplying roving, the machine passing through the entirecycle of its complicated movements without human direction. An idea maybe had of its delicate and accurate operation when it is considered that onepound of cotton has been spun by it into a thread one hundred and sixty-seven miles long. Improvements have been made, indeed, on Robertss mule,but aside from changes in details and form, the machine, as it left the handsof this mechanical genius in 1830, remains unchangei I. During
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