The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Machine Called the Mule: Being the Substance of Two Papers Read to the Members of the Bolton Mechanics' InstitutionSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1859 - 293 עמודים |
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עמוד 10 - ... to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
עמוד 233 - Neither doth their industry rest here ; for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home work the same and perfect it into fustians...
עמוד 260 - ... his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said invention, for and during the term of...
עמוד 260 - Paul, his executors, &c., should and might lawfully have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing and arising by reason of the said invention during the term of years therein mentioned To have, hold, exercise and enjoy the said license...
עמוד 259 - ... no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise and vend...
עמוד 82 - We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, have agreed to give, and do hereby promise to pay unto, Samuel Crompton, at the Hall-in-the-Wood, near Bolton, the several sums opposite to our names, as a reward for his improvement in spinning.
עמוד 145 - For the best invention of a machine that will spin six threads of wool, flax, hemp or cotton, at one time, and that will require but one person to work and attend it (cheapness and simplicity in the construction will be considered part of its merit); for the best, fifty pounds ; for the second best, twenty-five pounds.
עמוד 10 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it in places receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts, for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
עמוד 92 - They were then placed on the bread-rack under the beams of the kitchen-loft to dry. My mother and my grandmother carded the cotton wool by hand, taking one of the dollops at a time on the simple hand-cards. When carded they were put aside in separate parcels ready for spinning.'1 'As soon as I was able, a daily task was assigned to me to spin...
עמוד 39 - Probably the most remarkable circumstance connected with the money history of the enterprise is this : that although the canal yielded an income which eventually reached about 80,000/.