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Excerpt from The Science of Modern Cotton Spinning, Vol. 1: Embracing Mill Architecture, Machinery for Cotton Ginning, Opening, Scutching, Preparing, and Spinning, With All the Latest Improvements; Also Articles on Steam and Water Power, Shafting, Gearing and American System of Belting Compared
The next thing will be to Show the best arrangement and selection of machinery for producing good yarn; also its general management with a view to economy in wear and tear, labour, It is thought desirable, in order to give the student a thorough knowledge of the nature of cotton, to exhibit drawings Showing the length of staple of the different varieties, which the author is enabled to do through the kindness of The Cotton Supply Association; also to give a Short history of the plant, with fibres magnified, and to Show the mode of ginning cotton, as at present generally practised.
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