The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... give the yarn the requisite twisting . This is accomplished by the spindle , which passes through the bobbin or reel , having at its upper end two widely extending prongs hanging downwards over the sides of the bobbin . The yarn runs ...
... give the yarn the requisite twisting . This is accomplished by the spindle , which passes through the bobbin or reel , having at its upper end two widely extending prongs hanging downwards over the sides of the bobbin . The yarn runs ...
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... and its machinery would cost from 80,000l . to 100,000l . , and would employ from 1,000 to 1,500 hands . That which gives such a peculiar character to factory labour 6 is the power . ' The portion of the 18 HISTORY OF THE.
... and its machinery would cost from 80,000l . to 100,000l . , and would employ from 1,000 to 1,500 hands . That which gives such a peculiar character to factory labour 6 is the power . ' The portion of the 18 HISTORY OF THE.
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... give a little more consistence and much greater length to the fleecy rope , now become a ' drawing . ' In most mills the drawing ' now passes to the coarse and then to the fine bobbin - and - fly frame . ' The advantage of this machine ...
... give a little more consistence and much greater length to the fleecy rope , now become a ' drawing . ' In most mills the drawing ' now passes to the coarse and then to the fine bobbin - and - fly frame . ' The advantage of this machine ...
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... give out the yarn , the length already drawn out is stretched and twisted by the turning of the spindles ; the carriage then returns to beneath the rollers , while the spindles are actively winding up the yarn . When full , they are ...
... give out the yarn , the length already drawn out is stretched and twisted by the turning of the spindles ; the carriage then returns to beneath the rollers , while the spindles are actively winding up the yarn . When full , they are ...
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... The wages of weavers , like those of spinners , are regulated by the standard lists of prices . This is not a history of the Cotton Manufacture , and the mills are only thus visited in order to give COTTON FAMINE . 23.
... The wages of weavers , like those of spinners , are regulated by the standard lists of prices . This is not a history of the Cotton Manufacture , and the mills are only thus visited in order to give COTTON FAMINE . 23.
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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