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 414
parish of Oldham, from 13,916, in 1789, to 50,513. Such are the amazing creations of the cotton ma-chinery. At the beginning of the reign of George III.(in 1760,) probably not more than forty thousandpersons^ were supported by the whole cotton manu- * Ibid. p. 35. f My reasons for thinking that… … THE COTTON -MANUFACTURE. 361 factiire : macliines have been invented, which enableone man to produce as much yarn as two hundred andfifty or three hundred men could have produced then,—which enable one man and one boy to print asmany goods as a hundred men and a hundred boyscould have printed…
Cotton manufacture
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