. Cotton . abrics a continuous performance. It must be admitted that the sagacious minds in America watchedthese great and carefully protected inventions in England with shrewdunderstanding, and in spite of the prohibitory laws passed by theBritish Government to protect them, at a very early date adaptationsand modifications began to appear in America. George Washingtonin 1785 writes in his diary of seeing a machine in Beverly, Massa-chusetts in a small mill owned by the Cabots, that spun a large numberof cotton threads in a single operation. The machine he refers towas apparently some modific
. Cotton . abrics a continuous performance. It must be admitted that the sagacious minds in America watchedthese great and carefully protected inventions in England with shrewdunderstanding, and in spite of the prohibitory laws passed by theBritish Government to protect them, at a very early date adaptationsand modifications began to appear in America. George Washingtonin 1785 writes in his diary of seeing a machine in Beverly, Massa-chusetts in a small mill owned by the Cabots, that spun a large numberof cotton threads in a single operation. The machine he refers towas apparently some modification of Hargreaves spinning in 1790 Samuel Slater, founder of the Slater Mills of today, [42] A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF A GREAT FIBRE reproduced the carder and the spinning machinery of the ArkwrightMill in which he, himself, had been an apprentice. Within a genera-tion of this beginning, over one hundred cotton mills had been startedin x\merica, and these included not only spinning but weaving
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