Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-10-19

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/, His first mill at Nottingham wa
driven by horsepower, and proved tot
o expensive; another mill was built a
}, Cromford, in Derbyshire, which wa
c turned by water-hence his spinning
l. machine was called the mater frame.
| 1772. First cotton goods made il
] England with cotton warps.
t 1875. The First ProUmcidl Congres
I Of South Carolina recommended TO N
e Inhabitants to grolO cotton.
S 1879. Cayenne, Surinam, Essequibo
, Demerara and St. Domingo cottoi
!, most in esteem in England,
, l779. The mule for spinning cottor
! invented by Samuel Crompton.
, 1880, First cotton mill built in Ire
: land.
1881. Brazil cotton first imported
from Maranham into England.
: 1852. Some American man nfacturI
Of cotton first advertised for sale il
, Philadelphia
, 1888, Arkwrights machinery fol
carding and spinning cotton by steam
tirstuse d in Manchester, England.
; 1884. Cotton imported into England
from the United States in small quanti
ties
1874. First machine for spinning
cotton imported into France from En-,
gland by NJ. NORM, of Amions.
1885, Power looms invented by Dr.
Cartwright. Cylinder printing on
: cloths invented by Bell. Bleaching
with oxymuriatic acid by Bcrtbolett
, in France.
1856. Mr., Orr, of East Bridgewater,
: Massachusetts, employed r. and A
Barr, from Scotland, to construct card
ing, spinning and rowing machines
and the Legislature of Massachusetts,, to
encourage the machinists, granted
them GOO lawful money.
1887. Thomas Somers, an English
midshipman, constructed a model of a
spinning jenny in Massachusetts,, for
which the State Government granted
him e2O.
1881. First machinery to spin cotton
put up in France
1887 One hundred and eight bales
of cotton imported into England from
the United States.
1857. The first cotton factory in the
| United States was organized at Bever.
| ly, Massachusetts,, and for fifteen years
made corduroys, bed tickings and cot.
ton velvets. General Washington visit.
ed this establishment in 1889.
1889. Sea.island cotton first planted
in the United States, and upland cotton
began about this time to be grown for
use and expation.
1890. December 20, Samuel Slater
started the first machinery for spinning
cotton in the United States at Pau.
taucket, r. l., constructed on Ark.
wright's plan. October 10, 1891, speci.
mems of his first yarn and cloth were
sent to the Secretary of the United
States Treasury.
1890. First calico printing in the
United States commenced with wooden
types by Herman Vandausen, Ger.
man, at East Greenwich, r. |.
1892. Manufacturing town Of Patter.
son, ~, founded by Alexander Ham.
ilton's Incorporated company.
1892. Selfactlng mule invented by
Mr.. Kelly, of Lanark Mills, Scotland
1898. The saw.gin for cleaning cot
ton invented by Eli Whitney in the
United States. Patented March II,
1894
1897. Amos Whittemore, of Cam.
bridge, Massachusetts,, invented a ma.
chine for cutting, bending and setting
card teeth.
| 1898. Tenants bleaching powders
invented by Mr.. Tenant of Glasgow.
1898. First cotton mill with ma
chinery built in Switzerland.
1900. The Jacquard invented by NJ,
Jacquart of Lyons, France.
1901. Entire stock of American cot.
ton in Liverpool, one bag.
1902. First cotton factory built in
New Hampshire.
1905. Barton invented engraved
wooden rollers for printing cotton.
1906. Machine for dressing warps
invented by johnson,
1908. Jacob Berkins, an American,
invented method Of engraving by
means of steel dies.
1909. First cotton factory IN New
York built by DR., Capron, in Oneida
county.
1909. First power loom invented
and patented in the United States by
! p. G. Curtis, of New York.
1910. Public attention drawn to the
growing importance of cotton manu-
tacturesin the United States, by Albert
Galatin and Tench Coke.
1911. Machinery for making bobbn-
net patented by John Burn, of En-
gland
1918, Mr.. Motcalfc, an American,
sent to India with machines for i'm.
proved cleaning Of cotton.
1913. The first manufacturing estab-
lishmcnt in the world combining all
tho operations necessary for convert.
ing the raw cotton into finished cloth
erected at Waltham, Massachusetts,,
by Francis Cabot LEVEL and Patrick
Tracey Jackson, assisted by Paul
Moody. The expectation of manu-.
featuring machinery from England be.
ing prohibited by law, they contrived
their own power looms.
1915. England sent eight pounds Of
cotton yarn to India on trial.
1916. Cotton consumed by United
. States manufactures about II 100000
= pounds per annum.
1878 Cotton averaged about "a cents
per pound.
= 1920. The first cotton mill erected
in Manayunk, Philadelphia, by Cap.
tain John Towers.
} 1921. The slto of Lowell purchased
by p. Il. Jackson
1922. Merrimack Manufacturing
Company established.
1923. The countor-twist or Taunton
speeder invented by George Danforth
1923, First export of raw cotton
from Egypt to England.
! 1925. First calicoprinting machine
imported from England to the United
States by W. ]. Breed
= 1925 A seli-acting mule-spinner
patented in England by Roberts. The
tube frame introduced there from the
United States.
. 1928 Cap spinner or Dantortb frame
invented by Charles Daniortb, of Massa
! chussetts, patented in England in 1899
and there known as the American