The Early English Cotton Industry With Some Unpublished Letters of Samuel Cromp
The Early English Cotton Industry With Some Unpublished Letters of Samuel Cromp
George William Daniels
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* Wylie and Bri. Scoe, Jliilury of Xottinghani, p. Loi. 98 THE EARLY ENGLISH COTTON INDUSTRY prominent place in the early stages of modern industry. All that is known of his career supports the view. It was pre-eminently this characteristic which distinguished him from his less fortunate contemporaries. Whether the idea of spinning by rollers was his own or not, it is clear that when he left Preston for Nottingham in 1768, he realised that he had in his possession an invention which, with the a...id of capital, would bring him material success, and he was able to convince others of the fact. His association with Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt ^ — particularly with the latter — was the tactical point in his career in the cotton industry. Strutt, by previous in- ventions, had already shown his ability as a mechanician ^ ; he was also an established business man and a capitalist, able to realise the possibilities of Arkwright's machinery. In every respect he was an ideal partner for Arkwright, and there can be little doubt that, if all the facts were known, nmch of the improvement of the machinery would have to be ascribed to him : the recorded instance of his rubbing the spinning rollers with chalk to prevent the cotton sticking to them is significant.^ With Arkwright thus estabHshed, with his macliinery with its potentialities, in the very district where silk- mills — the precursors of cotton-mills — had begun to arise more than a generation before, '* the modern cotton ^Baines, ihid.
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