Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — TEXTILE FABRIC. [ARTICLE]

TEXTILE FABRIC.

The stoam loom was first brought in‘o use in 1807. The first power looms in America began work in 1813. Parliament, m 1812, voted Crompton £5,000 for his invention. Im Connecticut 200 pounds of raw silk were manufactured in 1789. Horrook’s ptfwer loom was patented by him about the year 1813. Sea Island eqtton was first grown in A morica about the year 1786. In 1790 eighty families in Connecticut were engaged in silk-growing. The steam engine was first applied to cotton-making by Watts, In 1785. In 1793, Whitney, American, invented the saw gin, to separate cotton fiber. Chloride of lime bleaching was first done in Glasgow by Tennant in 1798. The loom for figured fabrics was patented by Jacquard, of Lyons, In 1801. The dressing machine was the work of Johnson & Radcliffe, English, 1802. The power loom was the Invention of Rev. Edmund Cartwright, English, 1785. The first Arkwright machinery used in America was at Providence, R. 1., in 1790. In 1825 there were 250,000 hand looms and 75,000 horse-power looms in England. Before 1795 cotton used in England came from East and West Indies and Egypt. Napoleon, in 1801, introduced intc France the fashion of wearing Oriental 6hawls. The first American cotton factory was established at East Bridgewater, Mass., 1787. Cartwright's wool-combing machine, cylinder comb and oscillator, was invented in 1790. In 1784 eight bags of American cotton ■ sei ed for duty. “America could not produce so much." Alexander Hamilton’s report oil manufactures 1791, mentions a mill for cloths at Hartford. The eensus of 1810 jjflves for New York ’13,068 looms, 427 fulling mills and t.venty-six cotton factories.