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380 woman's work ir the world's clothing...
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but in and Steam tervention the entirel Spirit y of superseded ; who the hum bears whole an fingers . it op The does eration , and nam not e the reall was it sp is p inner erformed true in , is as that still such without is retained the , finall th y _& t , ; par
of the machine person —and its living" attendan y sp t has only to watch required that the , work and repair _^ is dul any y performed accident , that to supp may ly occur the . material The first as
sp instance inning of was the when app , lication in 1785 of ? Messrs steam . to Eolton the purpose and Watt of cotton erected - steamine to be
for Messrs . Bobinson of Nottinghamshire , a -eng thus The emp increase loyed . in inning obtained by all these
mechanical contrivances was sp enormous power for in 1787 instead of only _££ ty thousand spindles being at , work in England , as had been
the case but twenty-years previously , there were one million , nine hundred and fifty-one thousand in daily motionunder the
, care It of was ninety during thousan this year d women ( 1787 . ) that machinery began to be
required applied to for weaving with the as quantities well as of spinning now , an produced invention the much weft
had to wait , for the shuttlerather than yarn the shuttle for , the weft as had formerlbeen the case , It was a clergymanthe Rev . E . ,
Cartwright , who y first succeeded . in carrying this improvement , into effectand he has himself left on record the following "
account of , how his attention came to be directed to it . " Hap-I pening fell in / ' he says , _" with to be some at Matlock gentlemen in the of Manchester summer of 1 when 784 ,
the conversation company turned on Arkwright ' s spinning mach , inery . One of the observed that as soon as Arkwright ' s
patent expire company d , so many mills would be erected that hands never could be found to weave it . To this observation I replied ,
in weaving that which Arkwri 1 mill the g . ht Manchester This nvust broug then ht set on tlemen his a conversation wits unanimousl to work on y the to agreed invent subject that a , .
the thing was impracticable gen ; and in defence of their opinion they adduced arguments which I certainly was incompetent to
answer or even to comprehend , being totally ignorant of the subject , having never at that time seen a person weave . b I
remarking automaton controverted that fi , however there which , had the layed latel impracticability y at been chess exhibited . Now of in the London thing will not an y
assert , gentlem gure en , said I , p that it is more difficult you to construct a machine that shall weave than one that shall make all the
variety of moves which are required in that complicated game . u Some little time afterwards a particular circumstance
recalling in plain weaving this conversation , according to to my the mind conception , it struck I then me had that of , the as
380 Woman's Work Ir The World's Clothing...
380 woman ' s work _ir the world ' s clothing .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/42/
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