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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... produce equal results in the washing - tub , or in the more social tea - pot . They were not offended when Brindley said they were good for nothing but to feed canals . They suffered themselves to be led over hills and across valleys at ...
... produce equal results in the washing - tub , or in the more social tea - pot . They were not offended when Brindley said they were good for nothing but to feed canals . They suffered themselves to be led over hills and across valleys at ...
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... production , cotton has certainly the greatest capacity for textile manufacture . The operation of cotton - spinning may be described in a few words . It is nothing more than making a yarn by elongating and twisting a bundle of cotton ...
... production , cotton has certainly the greatest capacity for textile manufacture . The operation of cotton - spinning may be described in a few words . It is nothing more than making a yarn by elongating and twisting a bundle of cotton ...
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... produce of the islands lying along the shores of South Carolina and Georgia . But it was no uncommon seed from which this cotton was origin- ally produced . The length of its staple and the fineness of its quality are entirely ...
... produce of the islands lying along the shores of South Carolina and Georgia . But it was no uncommon seed from which this cotton was origin- ally produced . The length of its staple and the fineness of its quality are entirely ...
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... produce muslin , lace , and other yarns for the articles de luxe of the cotton trade . A cotton - mill is the perfection of mechanism , both human and metallic ; but architecturally , it is a brick box pierced with from four to eight ...
... produce muslin , lace , and other yarns for the articles de luxe of the cotton trade . A cotton - mill is the perfection of mechanism , both human and metallic ; but architecturally , it is a brick box pierced with from four to eight ...
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... production of the carding - engine is subjected to the drawing - frames , which 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 ...
... production of the carding - engine is subjected to the drawing - frames , which 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 ...
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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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