Life and Times of Samuel CromptonA.M. Kelley, 1862 - 299 pàgines |
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The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton: Inventor of the Spinning Machine ... Gilbert James French Visualització completa - 1859 |
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afterwards Ainsworth appears attended Baines's History Blackburn Brown's pamphlet called cambric carding character choir commenced committee connexion consequence Cotton Manufacture cotton trade cotton wool Cromp Crompton's claims Crompton's mule Deansgate eldest employed engraved erected factory favour friends gentleman George Crompton greatly Hall-in-the-Wood hands Hargreaves Hargreaves's jenny honour House of Commons important improvement in-the-Wood induced interest invention inventor James James Hargreaves John John Clowes John Kay John Wyatt Kennedy King-street labour Lancashire late Little Bolton London machinery Manchester mechanical memory ment mule muslins neighbouring New-Jerusalem Church occupied Oldhams parish parliament patent Peel person possessed pounds practised procured purpose remuneration residence reward rooms Samuel Crompton shillings Sir Joseph Banks Sir Richard Arkwright Society of Arts sons spindles spinners spinning by rollers Spinning Machine subscription success Thomas Thomas Bazley threads tion township transaction weavers weaving wheel wife Wood yarn yarn spun
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Pàgina 5 - ... to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Pàgina 150 - Neither doth their industry rest here, for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home...
Pàgina 6 - Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester.
Pàgina 5 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what, therefore, must it be after a winter ! The only mending it in places receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts, for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Pàgina 59 - I again trode it down. This process was continued until the mug became so full that I could no longer safely stand in it, when a chair was placed beside it, and I held on by the back. When the mug was quite full, the soap suds were poured off, and each separate dollop6'' of wool well squeezed to free it from moisture.
Pàgina 77 - In 1800 some gentlemen of Manchester, sensible that Mr. Crompton had been ill-used and neglected, agreed without his previous knowledge to promote a subscription on such a scale as would result in a substantial reward for his labours, a provision for his family, and a sufficient security for his comfort during life. The principal promoters of this scheme were Mr. George Lee and Mr. Kennedy...
Pàgina 5 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole counties, one would naturally conclude it to be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down.
Pàgina 5 - ... breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.
Pàgina 67 - I must be always teaching green hands, employ none, -or quit the country; it being believed that if I taught them they knew their business well. So that for years I had no choice left but to give up spinning, or quit my native land.
Pàgina 91 - For the best invention of a machine that will spin six threads of wool, flax, hemp, or cotton, at one time, and that will require but one person to work and attend it (cheapness and simplicity in the construction will be considered part of its merit) ; for the best, fifty pounds ; for the second best, twenty-five pounds.