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Home / Business / Textiles and Nonwovens / Resources / History / Machinery
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- Cotton Gin - Short history of the invention of the cotton gin. Link to biography of Eli Whitney.
www.pausd.palo-alto.ca.us/jls/virtualmuseum/ushistory/cotton
- Medieval North European Spindles and Whorls - Short article with descriptions of the spindles and whorls used by Scandinavian yarn spinners from 800 to 1500 CE. Author: Carolyn Priest-Dorman.
www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/spindles.html
- Monticello: The Plantation - Short article on the development of mechanised yarn spinning and cloth weaving on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello cotton plantation in 1812. Comprehensive resources, related to Jefferson.
www.monticello.org/plantation/textile.html
- On Power Looms - Excerpts from an early 19th century autobiography, written by William Radcliffe, and dealing with the implications of the introduction of the power loom for the local textile industry. Edited by Mr. Paul Halsall for the Modern History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1828looms.html
- Some Textile History - Collection of short, illustrated articles on the technical inventions and developments in the textile industry, from the first spinning jennie to yarn twisting. From the University of New South Wales.
www.fibresci.unsw.edu.au/Fax&Fix/TextHist/History.htm
- The Steam Loom - Excerpt from Richard Guest's, Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture (1823), and dealing with the invention and application of the steam loom in the British textile industry. Edited by Mr. Paul Halsall for the Modern History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1823cotton.html
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