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Identifier: storyoftextilesb1912walt (find matches)
Title: The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Walton, Perry, 1865-1941
Subjects: Textile industry Textile industry
Publisher: Boston, Mass., J. S. Lawrence
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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team-pump, slow working,cumbrous, and excessively wasteful of fuel. His patentmade it economical in working, powerful, and efficient,but it was still only a steam-pump. His later inventionsadapted it to driving machinery of all kinds, and made itparticularly applicable to use in textile mills. He retiredfrom business in 1800, and his business was carried on foryears by his two sons and a son of Boulton. He died onthe 19th of August, 1819. By 1811 the process of making cloth had reached suchperfection in England that, according to The Book ofDays, Sir John Throckmorton, of Berkshire, could wagera thousand guineas that he would at eight oclock on a partic-ular evening sit down to dinner in a well-woven, well-dyed,well-made suit the wool of which formed the fleece ona sheeps back at five oclock on the same morning. Mr.Coxetter, of Greenham Mills at Newbury, was put incharge of the work. He had at 5 a.m. on the 28th of June two South Devonsheep shorn. The wool was washed, carded, stubbed.
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THE STORY OF TEXTILES 101 roved, spun and woven; the cloth was scoured, fulled,tented, raised, sheared, dyed and dressed. The tailor wasat hand and made up the finished cloth into garments, andat a quarter past six in the evening Sir John Throckmortonsat down to dinner at the head of his guests in a completedamson-colored suit that had thus been made,—winningthe wager with an hour and three-quarters to spare. ELI WHITNEY The improvements in spinning and weaving machinerysoon brought cotton manufacturing to a pass where itsdemand for raw material outran the supply, and ways andmeans for increasing the raw cotton available became apressing necessity. As the industry about Manchester had grown, new fieldsfor the production of cotton were developed. The originalsource of supply was India, other parts of the East, andEgypt. It was indigenous, however, to the West Indies,and soon these islands became a source of supply. About1770 West India cotton was transplanted to Georgia andlater to N

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