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 . given the movementby Richard j^rkwright, who has been called the father ofthe factory system. It was to his executive and financialability, quite as much as to the inventive genius he dis-played in the improvement of the spinning frame, that thiswas due. The first practical cotton mill in the world waserected by him in 1769 at Nottingham and was turned byhorses. One had already been built in 1764 by JamesHargreaves, who invented the spinning jenny, but it wasnot
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 . given the movementby Richard j^rkwright, who has been called the father ofthe factory system. It was to his executive and financialability, quite as much as to the inventive genius he dis-played in the improvement of the spinning frame, that thiswas due. The first practical cotton mill in the world waserected by him in 1769 at Nottingham and was turned byhorses. One had already been built in 1764 by JamesHargreaves, who invented the spinning jenny, but it wasnot^pracfTcal. Water power was already beginning to supply the powerto the few mills in existence, and in 1771 Arkwright erecteda new mill at Cromford, which was turned by the riverDerwent, and was supplied with a cylinder card machineand a spinning frame, which could roll as well as spin, andwhich was called a water frame from the power that sup-plied it. The machines thus grouped at Cromford made it possiblefor the first time to accomplish the whole operation of cottonspinning in one mill, the first machine receiving the cotton. DOMESTIC FLAX WHEEL An old German invention, commonly called the Saxony, or Leipzig, some instances two spindles were attached to the same wheel, enablingthe spinner to form a thread with each hand.
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