The life and times of Samuel Crompton : inventor of the spinning machine called the mule. With an appendix of original documents, including a paper on the origin of spinning by rollers, read by Robert Cole ... to the British association for the advancement of science /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: French, Gilbert J. (Gilbert James), 1804-1866
Other Authors: Cole, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : T. Dinham & co.; [etc., etc.], 1860.
Edition:2d ed.
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Description
Item Description:"This memoir ... had its origin in two lectures delivered to the members of the Boston Mechanics institution in the winter session of 1858-59."--Pref.
Physical Description:xiv, 2 unnumbered pages, 299 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, 2 plates, 3 folded facsimiles ; 20 cm.