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 235
tly and equably, and a much finerquality of yarn can therefore be produced.* This excellent machine, which has superseded thejenny, and to a considerable extent the water-frame, andwhich has carried the cotton manufacture to a perfection * If the adaptation of the lines may be pardoned, for the… … THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 199 it could not otherwise have attained, was invented bySamuel Crompton, a weaver, of respectable character andmoderate circumstances, living at Hall-in-the-Wood,near Bolton. The date of the invention has beengenerally stated to be 1775, but Mr. Kennedy, whopersonally knew…
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