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 87
e Mogul Empire, says, On the coastof Coromandel and in the province of Bengal, when at some distance from thehigh road or a principal town, it is difficult to find a village in which every man, 1 6(5 THE HISTORY OF domestic manufacture, and carried on with the rudestand cheapest apparatus, it… … The mill consists of two rollers of teak wood, flutedlongitudinally with five or six grooves, and revolvingnearly in contact. The upper roller is turned by ahandle, and the lower is carried along with it by a per-petual screw at the axis. The cotton is put in at oneside, and drawn through by the…
Cotton manufacture
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