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 . lothing was mounted onhandles and called cards for cattle; while the spindleswere called teeth for horse-rakes. In other instances themachines were cut up in small pieces, shipped as glasswareto France, and reshipped to America. It was not long after1800 that the makers of textiles on this side of the waterwere almost as well equipped with English machines aswere the English themselves. .y. ENGLAND AND COTTON According to Bains History of Cotton, the importation
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 . lothing was mounted onhandles and called cards for cattle; while the spindleswere called teeth for horse-rakes. In other instances themachines were cut up in small pieces, shipped as glasswareto France, and reshipped to America. It was not long after1800 that the makers of textiles on this side of the waterwere almost as well equipped with English machines aswere the English themselves. .y. ENGLAND AND COTTON According to Bains History of Cotton, the importationof cotton in 1730, before the invention of the fly shuttle,was but 1,545,472 pounds, and the value of the cottongoods exported was 13,524 pounds; while in 1800, thirteenyears after the invention of Cartwrights loom and Wattssteam-engine, the cotton imported was 56,010,732 pounds,and the exports were 5,406,501 pounds. The value of theproduct in 1787 was 3,304,371 pounds sterling, or five andone-half times that of 1766. Cotton was being used in 1787 in the one hundred andforty-three mills in England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle. IMPROVED JENNY {According to Guest) The wheel A turns the cyHnder B by a band CC. The spindles areturned by strings from the cylinder B. The rovings are placed on theframe E and pass through the clove F to the spindles. The clove movesin the groove GG. When the clove is close to the spindles at H, it is openedand drawn from them eight or ten inches to /, the rovings sliding throughit. It is then shut fast, and the spindles are set in motion by turning thewheel A. As the spindles revolve, the clove is drawn back from / to Aby the left hand of the spinner: this stretches out the rovings into stretched out, the spinner holds the clove at K with the left hand,and gives the proper degree of twist by turning the wheel A with the righthand. The weft is then copped by turning the clove to H. L, the droprod. The spindles in the first improved jennies w
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