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James Hargreaves - page 1
IT IS highly unlikely that James Hargreaves had anything to do with the invention ... he probably felt frustrated by the inability of his family to keep him ...
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Edmund Cartwright - page 1
Biography of Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. ... agonising death throes of the hand-loom weaving industry that his invention caused. ...
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Edmund Cartwright - page 1
Biography of Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. ... agonising death throes of the hand-loom weaving industry that his invention caused. ...
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Edwin Chadwick
Biography of Edwin Chadwick. ... and was responsible for the first Public Health Act. But his outlook and manner never endeared him to his contemporaries, ...
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Edwin Chadwick
Biography of Edwin Chadwick. ... Chadwick was born in Longsight, now a district of Manchester, in January, 1800. Ten years later his family moved to London ...
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Industrial Revolution - links page
SUNSET ON THE DAWN: The detailed story of the life and death of Oldham's Dawn cotton mill. WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT LIBRARY: Library and bookshop based in The ...
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Industrial Revolution - Places to Visit
A few miles to the South is the Barton swing aqueduct, which carries the Bridgewater over the Manchester Ship Canal. Places to visit in the North West ...
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Manchester Ship Canal
Ted Gray, in his A Hundred Years of the Manchester Ship Canal, also points out that more than half the cost of exporting finished cotton goods to India came ...
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Eli Whitney - inventor
Biography of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. ... ELI WHITNEY'S cotton gin was the final process in the automation of cotton production, ...
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Eli Whitney - inventor
Biography of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. ... crude model of his gin in 1793 - 'gin' is short for 'engine' - his patent application was filed in ...
