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 (1835)
Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 161
patent of 1758,however, may materially help us in our conjectures,especially as all the notices of the machinery containedin the MS. book above quoted seem to indicate an engineof the same kind. The latter patent is remarkably com-plete in its drawings and specification; and from a care-ful… … m THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 139 to the rollers, consequent upon Pauls improvement inthe carding process, hereafter to be described. The specification of the patent of 1758* contains thefollowing general description of the process:— The wooll or cotton to be spun by the said machine or enginemust be…
Cotton manufacture
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