 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
 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...following account of this invention is taken from the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica: — "Happening to be at Matlock, in the "summer of 1784,...turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the com" pany observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills " would be erected, and... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...labour, has been minutely detailed by himself, in a letter written to Mr. Dugald Bannatyne, of Glasgow. " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotlon spun, that hands never could be found to weave it. To this observation I replied, that Arkwright... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...statement, — first printed 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...printed in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. ' Happening,' he says, ' to be at IMatlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in company with some...gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on Ark Wright's spinning-machinery. One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner, George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 298 pages
...subject to the respectable secretary to the Chamber of Commerce in Glasgow, needs no apology : — " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright'a patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...Gartside, at Manchester; but no advantage was realized, as a man was required to superintend each loom. " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of tie company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...immediately led to the invention of the powerlooni is best related in the words of the inventor himself. " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned 011 Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton growing - 1836 - 502 pages
...labour has been minutely detailed by himself, in a letter written to Mr. Dugald Bannatyne, of Glasgow. " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784,...machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Aikwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 514 pages
...by himself, in a letter written to Mr. Dug-aid Bannatyne, of Glasgow. " Happening to be at Mallock in the summer of 1784, I fell in company 'with some...machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Aikwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 508 pages
...Bannatyne, of Glasgow. " Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, 1 fell in company with tome gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned...spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that 35 soon as Atkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected. and no much cotton span, that... | |
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