Cotton Spinning

When or where cotton was first manufactured is uncertain, but long before our era, India and other nations of the far East had a world-wide fame for its cultivation and manipulation. Cotton spinning was wonderfully developed by English inventors in the 18th century, and British laws sought by severe penalties to prevent the knowledge of these inventions from being conveyed to other countries. Since Slater brought the designs of improved English machinery for cotton manufacture in his brain to America, the development of that industry has been gigantic. In 1902 the United States had one-fifth of all the cotton spindles of the world, and was consuming nearly one-third of the world’s product of cotton.