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 186
retired to Nottingham in 1768, where heentered into partnership with Mr. Thomas James, ajoiner, who raised sufficient money to enable them toerect a small mill. He took out a patent for thejenny in 1770, the year after Arkwright had obtainedhis patent at the same place. The patent was for amethod… … THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 159 engine will spin, draw, and twist sixteen or more threadsat one time, by a turn or motion of one hand, and adraw of the other. The following is the inventorsdescription of the process,— One person, with his orher right hand turns the wheel, and with the left handtakes…
Cotton manufacture
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