A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture

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Excerpt from A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture: With a Disproval of the Claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the Invention of Its Ingenious Machinery Highs kept the Water Frame as secret as possible, it was his favourite invention, and he promised himself much future advantage from it. The Jenny he made public, but the Roller Spinning he endeavoured to keep to himself, until he could raise money sufficient to establish a factory. In his evidence, given in the Court of King's Bench, in the trial of the King against Arkwright, in June, 1785, he says he did not follow up the invention because he wanted means, being poor and having a large family, but thought to follow it up when he became a little abler, and could get a friend to assist him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.