 | Edward Baines - Lancashire (England) - 1821 - 680 pages
...summer of 1784, to the effect, that as soon as Mr. Arkwright's patent for frame spinning expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands could never be found to weave it.» Impressed with the idea of the practibility • Mr. of weaving... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1824 - 678 pages
...summer of 1784, to the effect, that as soon as Mr. Arkwright's patent for frame spinning expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands could never be found to weave it.* Impressed with tiie idea of the practibility • "r. of weaving... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotlon spun, that hands never could be found to weave it....Arkwright must then set his wits to work to invent a weavingmaehine. This brought on a conversation on the subject, in which the Manchester gentlemen unanimously... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...Wright's spinning-machinery. One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands would never be found to weave it. To this observation I replied, that Arkwright must then set his wits... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...Arkwright's spinning-machinery. One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands would never be found to weave it. To this observation I replied, that Arkwright must then set his wits... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun,...observation I replied, that Arkwright must then set hi« wits to work to invent a weaving mill. This brought on a conversation on the subject, in which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...concerning Arkwright's spinning machinery. It was observed that, so soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands would not be found to weave it. Cartwright remarked that Arkwright must, in that case, invent weaving... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of tie company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun,...brought on a conversation on the subject, in which tk« Manchester gentlemen unanimously agreed that the thing was impracticable; and, in defence of their... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1835 - 838 pages
...Edmund Cartwright, a brother of the late excellent Major Cartwright, so early as 1785, he remarked " that Arkwright must then set his wits to work, to invent a weaving mill." Dr Cartwright had a decided natural genius for mechanics, but it so happened, that, at this time, he... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 528 pages
...Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun,...must then set his wits to work to invent a weaving machine. This brought on a conversation on the subject, in which the Manchester gentlemen unanimously... | |
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Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in company with some gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired so many mills... 
