Cotton Spinning

CONTENTS CHAP. FOREWORD. BY SIR CHARLES MACARA INTRODUCTION . . . . 11. COTTON SPINNING AFTER THE WAR . 111. COTTON SPINNING MILL FINANCE . IV. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING . . V. THE RAW COTTON POSITION . VI. EARLY SPINNING INVENTIONS . . VII. THE JENNY AND THE WATER FRAME . VIII. THE MULE AND THE RING FRAME . IX. THE MODERN SPINNING MILL . . INDEX . . . PAGE . v-vi . ix-xi ILLUSTRATIONS A Hand Spun Frock . A Modern Mule Spinning Room, A Ring Frame . Miss Alison RSacara in Hand Spun Frock An Old Flax Wheel . Spinning on the Saxon Wheel . Hargreaves Spinning Jenny . Ark vrights Water Twist Frame . Arkwrights Original Patent UTater Frame The Water Wheel at Cromford . Cromptons Mule . Self-Acting Mule . A Throstle Frame PAGE F ontispiece Mixing . 93 Card Room . . 95 Frame Room . 97 Roving . 99