The American cotton spinner and managers' and carders' guide
Subtitle: a practical treatise on cotton spinning : giving the dimensions and speed of machinery, draught and twist calculations, etc., with notices of recent improvements, together with rules and examples for making changes in the size and numbers of roving and yarn
Series: Home economics archive--research, tradition and history; Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Henry Carey Baird
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Cotton spinning; Handbooks, manuals; Cotton manufacture; Cotton machinery; Cotton textile industry
Notes: "Compiled from the papers of the late Robert H. Baird."

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