A manuscript compendium relating to the cotton industry of the late nineteenth century, compiled by a Lancashire machine fitter specialising in cotton processing
[Lancashire, unpublished], 1886. The neatly-written notes and well-executed drawings appear to relate to a technical education course covering cotton processing, with particular emphasis on the types and configurations of machines for ginning, carding, spinning, and weaving cotton. More broadly, subjects include the planting, picking, pests and diseases of the cotton..... More