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  2. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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    The textile industry was also to benefit from other developments of the period. As early as 1691, Thomas Savery had made a vacuum steam engine. His design, which was unsafe, was improved by Thomas Newcomen in 1698. In 1765, James Watt further modified Newcomen's engine to design an external condenser steam engine. Watt continued to make ...

  3. Waltham-Lowell system - Wikipedia

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    The Waltham-Lowell system was a labor and production model employed during the rise of the textile industry in the United States, particularly in New England, during the rapid expansion of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. The textile industry was one of the earliest to become mechanized, made possible by inventions such as ...

  4. Lowell mills - Wikipedia

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    In the 1890s, the South emerged as the center of U.S. textile manufacturing; not only was cotton grown locally in the South, it had fewer labor unions and heating costs were cheaper. By the mid-20th century, all of the New England textile mills, including the Lowell mills, had either closed or relocated to the south. [1]

  5. Courtaulds - Wikipedia

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    Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals.It was established in 1794 and became the world's leading man-made fibre production company before being broken up in 1990 into Courtaulds plc and Courtaulds Textiles Ltd.

  6. List of mills in Stockport - Wikipedia

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    1800 : 175: Notes: There were three mills built by Samuel Oldknow on Hopes Carr.In 1891 Samuel Bunting and Co had 13,926 spindles. Lower Carr Mill:Built before 1900 on site of former silk mill. A room and power mill in the early 19th century. An earlier 5-storey mill built over Carr Brook, with a mill dam to the south.

  7. Merton Abbey Works - Wikipedia

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    The Merton Abbey Works was a textile printing factory in Merton, then part of Surrey but now in Greater London, England. Textile industries were active there from approximately 1690 until 1940. [ 1 ] From 1880 to 1940, the Works were the factory of the Arts and Crafts movement design firm Morris & Co.

  8. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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    Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. W. W. Norton & Company, new edition, 1995. (Barber 1995) Bender Jørgensen, Lise. 'Stone-Age Textiles in North Europe'. In Textiles in Northern Archaeology, Textile Symposium in York, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles Monograph 3 (NESAT III ...

  9. List of mills in Fall River, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    The city of Fall River, Massachusetts once had over 120 cotton textile mills [1] and was the leading cotton textile center in the United States during the late 19th century and early 20th century. [2] There are currently about 65 historic textile mills remaining in the city, as well as other

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