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Paul-Wyatt cotton mills

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118: 17: 162:. This was the first cotton mill to be driven by water power. Cave experienced similar problems organising his workforce to Paul and Wyatt ("I have not got half my people come to work today" he wrote to Wyatt, "and I have no great fascination in the prospect I have to put myself in the power of such people") and the mill generated little profit, but was to continue operation until about 1764. 100:
in Birmingham, the first mill to spin cotton "without the aid of human fingers". The mill "containing fifty rollers ... turned by two donkeys walking round an axis" was not a commercial success, with Wyatt unable to enforce the levels of organisation and discipline that an operation on this scale
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was to comment that Wyatt was "favourably placed, in a mechanical point of view, for maturing his admirable scheme" but "a gentle and passive spirit, little qualified to cope with the hardships of a new manufacturing enterprise". Two years after its opening the mill was described as being in a
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set up a second Birmingham mill in conjunction with Paul and Wyatt in 1744; little is known of its fate, but it was sufficiently encouraging for Touchet to lease the Northampton mill from Cave for a period up to 1755.
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that for the first time used the principle of two sets of rollers travelling at different speeds to enable fully mechanical spinning. The patent outlined the two key developments that were later to underlie both
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s report of the fire described it as being "erected there with great expense and skill" and "viewed with great pleasure and admiration by travellers and all who had seen them"
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was later to observe that the Paul-Wyatt mill "would have got money had it been in good hands", but nothing is known of it after Wyatt's release in October 1743.
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cotton - a premilinary process that must be undertaken before spinning. Bourn's mill burned down in 1754 but must have had a considerable reputation, as the
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Smith, D. (December 1989), "The representation of non-extractive industry on large-scale county maps of England and Wales 1700 -c. 1840",
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The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England
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Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England
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and one of the friends of Dr Johnson who had funded the development of Paul and Wyatt's invention – experimented in
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Using this technology, and with financial support provided by associates of the author
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Four other mills were set up using the Paul-Wyatt machinery in the following years.
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Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham: A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically
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with running the machinery by hand and by 1742 had set up 250 spindles at
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pictured in 1746 - the earliest known pictorial representation of a
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Diagram of rollers and bobbin from Paul's 1758 patent.
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Index


mechanised cotton spinning factories
roller spinning
Lewis Paul
John Wyatt
Lewis Paul
John Wyatt
patent
cotton spinning machine
Richard Arkwright
water frame
James Hargreaves
spinning jenny
mill
Samuel Johnson
Upper Priory Cotton Mill
Andrew Ure
Fleet Prison
Matthew Boulton

Marvel's Mill
Northampton
cotton mill
Edward Cave
The Gentleman's Magazine
London
Marvell's Mill
watermill
Northampton
Samuel Touchet

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