Author: FRENCH, GILBERT JAMES (1804-1866)
Title: Life and times of Samuel Crompton / Gilbert J. French ; with an introduction by Stanley D. Chapman
Description: Bath : Adams & Dart 1970. Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xv.xiv.299p : ill ; port ; 23cm. Notes: Facsimile reprint of the 2nd ed. of 1860. With an appendix of original documents. including a paper on the origin of spinning by rollers. read by Robert Cole. Esq. FRS. to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Published in Somerset by Adams & Dart for Social Documents Ltd 1970. Subject: Crompton. Samuel (1753-1827) Inventor of the Spinning Mule. Biography - Miscellaneous. Inventors - Spinning - Spinning machinery - History - Great Britain. Textile industry. Technological change. Industrialization. Other names: Adams. Anthony. Chapman. Stanley D. Series: Documents of social history. Genre: Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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