Reclaming Sic Gin Loss Cotton

Author : Edward Craig Bates
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330378403
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Cotton Gin written by Edward Craig Bates and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Cotton Gin Of the four great staples which provide man with clothing, - cotton, silk, wool and flax, cotton, now the cheapest and most indispensable, was last to come into general use. It is not, however, a new article. Thousands of years ago cotton was the national cloth of India, just as linen was of Egypt. The Chinese, who had known the plant from the earliest times, began its manufacture into cloth during the thirteenth century. The earliest explorers found beautiful fabrics of cotton among the natives of Mexico and South America. In the fourteenth century - long after linens, woolens, and silks had become articles of commerce - cottons were introduced into Europe, but they were necessarily very expensive. The distance from which they were brought, and the clumsy methods of their manufacture, gave almost a monopoly to woolens, silks, and linens, until the great inventions of Hargreaves, Arkwright, and Compton, late in the last century, made cotton the ordinary clothing of the people. These inventions mark an era in the industrial development of the world. In the course of twenty years, from 1765 to 1785, the manufacture of cotton goods made greater progress than in thousands of years preceding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.