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 241
ter, the Muslin wheel, from itsmaking yarn sufficiently fine for the manufacture ofmuslin; but it ultimately received the name of Mule,from combining the principles of the jenny and thewater-frame. Mr. Crompton having made no effort tosecure by a patent the exclusive enjoyment of his inven-tion, it… … S A M I I. 1. Ilin M 1 I ■ i) \ C? ^ 0-^7^? ynWc o—r? ■ THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 203 granted liiin in the year 1812 by parliament.* Theart of spinning on Cromptons machine (says Mr. Ken-nedy) was tolerably well known, from the circumstanceof the high wages that could be obtained by thoseworking on…
Cotton manufacture
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