Cotton Spinning: Its Development, Principles, and Practice |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 61
Page viii
... obtained an approximately exact and succinct view of the development , leading principles , and present state of England's greatest mechanical industry . MANCHESTER , February , 1884 . R. M. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY ...
... obtained an approximately exact and succinct view of the development , leading principles , and present state of England's greatest mechanical industry . MANCHESTER , February , 1884 . R. M. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY ...
Page xii
... obtained - Traverse of the slubbing- Doffing - Altering draughts - The intermediate , and the slubbing frames . · CHAPTER VII . DEVELOPMENT OF SPINNING . Spinning its antiquity ; conjectural origin ; the first spindle -Definition of ...
... obtained - Traverse of the slubbing- Doffing - Altering draughts - The intermediate , and the slubbing frames . · CHAPTER VII . DEVELOPMENT OF SPINNING . Spinning its antiquity ; conjectural origin ; the first spindle -Definition of ...
Page 2
... obtained points to India as the birth - place of the manufacture . In that country me- chanical appliances appear to have been first invented in order to aid in the manufacture of the fibre . At a very early period the art became a ...
... obtained points to India as the birth - place of the manufacture . In that country me- chanical appliances appear to have been first invented in order to aid in the manufacture of the fibre . At a very early period the art became a ...
Page 4
... obtained before . This was the beginning of the modern epoch of invention , and its first practical result . The demand for yarn , which was a consequence of the general adoption of Kay's improvement , greatly stimu- lated invention ...
... obtained before . This was the beginning of the modern epoch of invention , and its first practical result . The demand for yarn , which was a consequence of the general adoption of Kay's improvement , greatly stimu- lated invention ...
Page 5
... obtained , as they have deserved to do , the careful consideration of English machinists and spinners . The attention of the continental nations of Europe was drawn to the new industry with which England had en- dowed the world at a ...
... obtained , as they have deserved to do , the careful consideration of English machinists and spinners . The attention of the continental nations of Europe was drawn to the new industry with which England had en- dowed the world at a ...
Common terms and phrases
Arkwright's arrangement attached attenuated backing-off beater bobbin boiler carpel carriage carried chain coiled comb commences cone connecting rod counter faller cylinder diameter doubling drawing drawing rollers driving duction Edition engine English faller wire feed fibres fixed flyer front gearing Hargreaves Illustrations improvement inches incline increased invention inventor jenny labour latter layer length lever lifting loose machine machinery manufacture material means mechanical Memoir mill motion mule Notes obtained operation passed perfect pinion plates portion Portrait position production pulley quadrant rail result revolution revolutions per minute revolving ring frame roller beam round roving frame Samuel Crompton scutcher seed shaft sliver slubbing speed spindles spinner spinning frame spun staple surface teeth thread throstle tin roller tion trade Trans traverse tube twist uncoiled vols water frame weft weight wheel whilst winding Woodcuts wound yarn
Popular passages
Page 364 - Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev. WW Skeat, MA Portrait. 4 vols.
Page 365 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged, with variorum Notes ; including those of Guizot, Wenck, Niebuhr, Hugo, Neander, and others. 7 vols. 2 Maps and Portrait.