The early English cotton industry

I.--The development of the English cotton industry the classic example of the Industrial Revolution movement; its importance as an indication of what the transition from the dom...

I.--Clothiers in the Northern cloth district; Martin Byrom of Manchester (1520); statute (1543) refers to Irish merchants and others who sell linen-yarn and wool on credit in Ma...

I.--Modern cotton industry dates from great inventions; inventions relate especially to spinning and preparatory processes, but earliest successful efforts in weaving; “Dutch” l...

Failure of attempts to obstruct use of Arkwright’s machinery; Act (1774) reduces duty and removes prohibition on printed calicoes, 92-93; patents of Hargreaves and Arkwright cha...

I.--The work of Samuel Crompton; begins efforts to produce improved yarn at Hall-i’-th’-Wood (1772); invents “mule” (1779); prices obtained for his yarn; consents to make machin...

Crompton takes up residence at Oldhams; begins spinning business at Bolton (1791); subscription (1802-1803) partial failure owing to outbreak of war; extends his business; diffi...

In the year 1906 one of the oldest and largest firms in the cotton industry, that of Messrs. M‘Connel & Co. Ltd., published, under the title of _A Century of Fine Cotton Spinnin...

At the present time the British cotton industry, which is almost entirely localised in Lancashire and in the adjoining parts of Cheshire and Yorkshire, is the largest of the wor...

“One writeth that about Anno 1520 there were three famous clothiers living in the North Countrey viz. Cuthbert of Kendal, Hodgkins of Halifax, and Martin Brian, some say Byrom o...

The statement made at the close of the last chapter, that a new cotton manufacture arose in Lancashire in the latter years of the eighteenth century is justified, notwithstandin...

The episodes of 1767 and 1779 were the two most important direct attempts to obstruct the use of the new spinning machinery, and there is no reason to think that they were in an...

To combine in a superior spinning-machine, the most important principles of those with which the names of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright are associated, is the task acco...

It now remains to follow the fortunes of Samuel Crompton to the time when he wrote the following letters. Some time before 1785 he left Hall-i’-th’-Wood and went to live at Oldh...

In view of what has been said in the last two chapters, the following letters explain themselves. The first has reference to the 1803 subscription, and the others to the parliam...