 One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands would never be found to weave it.  The Industrial Revolution - Page 27by Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 105 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George L. Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 894 pages
...first printed (in 1815) in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. " Happening," he says, " to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in...Manchester, when the conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning-machinery. One of- the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many... | |
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1870 - 288 pages
...power-loom, he has himself narrated in a curious letter to a friend : — " Happening," he says, " to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in...observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, BO many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never could be found to weave it.... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - Great Britain - 1874 - 498 pages
...their cause." turned, as it might well do there and then, on cotton-spinning, when the remark was made, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be built and so much cotton be spun that there would not be hands enough to weave it. Cartwright said... | |
 | John Hodgson (of Keighley.) - 1879 - 282 pages
...distinguished merit of originating the present power loom. We subjoin his own account of the discovery. "Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...gentlemen of Manchester when the conversation turned on Arkright's spinning machine. One of the company observed that as soon as Arkright's patent expired... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 700 pages
...by him to a Mr. Bannatyne, and in which he explains his sudden change from a cleric to an inventor. "Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in company of some gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on the Arkwright spinning-machinery.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1884 - 370 pages
...words. In a letter to Mr. Bannatyne, published in the " Encyclopaedia Britannica," he says : — " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in HAND-LOOM. iAi Wari<-heara ; in; Lease-rods : ic, ni Uie Heddles: iEi the Lay: iri Rock i !• n 'ii... | |
 | National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (U.S.) - Cotton manufacture - 1898 - 402 pages
...thus described in a letter from himself to Mr. BANNATYNE, inserted in the Encyclopedia Brittannica : "Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on ARKWKIGHT'S spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as ARKWRIGHT'S patent expired,... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 pages
...into the company of some Manchester gentlemen. The conversation turned on Arkwright's machinery, and "one of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's...patent expired so many mills would be erected and so mueli cotton spun that hands would never be found to weave it.-" Cartwright replied " that Arkwright... | |
 | William S. Murphy - Textile fabrics - 1910 - 230 pages
...author of the article on "Cotton Manufacture" in the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. "Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...in company with some gentlemen of Manchester, when our conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the company observed that as soon... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - Science - 1910 - 408 pages
...him to enter the field of mechanics. "Happening to be in Matlock in the summer of 1784," he wrote, "I fell in company with some gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning-machinery. One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired so many... | |
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