Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 258
exclusive enjoyment of his in-vention, it became public property, and was turned to advantageby more pushing manufacturers. About the year 1802, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Lee of Manchesterset on foot a subscription for him, whereby they obtained a suffi-cient capital for the increase of his small… … HALL-IN-THE-WOOD, NEAR BOLTON,The Birth-Place of Crompton. WILLIAM EDWARDS. 253 in his cottage: Though his means were slender, he was such amaster of domestic economy, as to be always in easy circum-stances. In 1812, he made a survey of all the cotton districts inEngland, Scotland, and Ireland, and…
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