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101Textile industry — The Textile industry (also known in the United Kingdom and Australia as the Rag Trade) is a term used for industries primarily concerned with the design or manufacture of clothing as well as the distribution and use of textiles.Cottage stagePrior …
102Cowichan knitting — Cowichan sweater redirects here. For other uses, see Cowichan. A couple display their themed Cowichan sweaters outside the Butter Church at Cowichan Bay, 1985. Cowichan knitting is a form of knitting developed by the Cowichan people of… …
103Science and invention in Birmingham — Birmingham is the second largest city in the United Kingdom. It is one of the country s principal industrial centres and has an impressive history of industrial and scientific innovation.16th century1547: Although no record is kept to indicate… …
104Paul, Lewis — died April 1759, Kensington, Middlesex, Eng. British inventor. Working with John Wyatt from about 1730, he developed the first power spinning machine (see drawing frame), which they patented in 1738. It operated by drawing cotton or wool through… …
105John Wyatt (inventor) — John Wyatt (April 1700 ndash; 29 November 1766), an English inventor, was born near Lichfield and was related to Sarah Ford, Doctor Johnson s mother. A carpenter by trade he began work in Birmingham on the development of a spinning machine. In… …
106Arkwright, Sir Richard — born Dec. 23, 1732, Preston, Lancashire, Eng. died Aug. 3, 1792, Cromford, Derbyshire British textile industrialist and inventor. His first spinning machine was patented in 1769 (see Lewis Paul). His water frame (so called because it operated by… …
107Voith — Infobox Company company name = Voith AG company company type = joint stock company (100% family owned) foundation = 1867 industry = mechanical engineering location = Germany, Heidenheim a. d. Brenz key people = Dr. Hubert Lienhard (President and… …
108Life in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution — Industrial revolution is defined as the vast social and economic changes that resulted from the development of steam powered machinery and mass production methods, beginning in the late eighteenth century in Great Britain and extending through… …
109Thorp, John — born 1784, Rehoboth, Mass., U.S. died Nov. 15, 1848, Providence, R.I. U.S. inventor. He invented the ring spinning machine in 1828. By the 1860s it had largely replaced Samuel Crompton s spinning mule in the world s textile mills because of its… …
110Daniel Treadwell — (October 10, 1791 – February 27, 1872) was an American inventor, born at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Amongst his most important inventions are a hemp spinning machine for the production of cordage, and a method of constructing cannon from wrought… …
