A ready numberer : or, the cotton spinner's calculator: a table, Calculated to afford greater assistance, than any hitherto published, to Cotton Manufacturers, particularly those in The Spinning Branch. Shewing the number of hanks required on a set, of a bundle, to make the yarn any such number, from 11 hanks in one pound, up to 210. Exhibited upon a simple construction, as shall be fully explained hercaster. There is, on every page, to render this work still more serviceable, a narrow column, that shews the amount of the weight inserted on the same, under (and a little above) eight shillings and six pence per 1b. To which also is annexed, a wrapping table; OR, A Table computing the length of a whole set, by the length of one cop. Including nine different sizes of Jennies, and nineteen Mules, from 144 spindles, taking all regular sizes (i. e. 12 to be the common difference) up to 360. By Thomas Jones, Evan Evans, and John Thornton, Cotton Spinners.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1798.

Thornton, John, fl. 1798., Author.

Evans, Evan, cottonspinner., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cotton yarn--Early works to 1800.

Cotton yarn.

Cotton Spinners & Manufacturers Association--Early works to 1800.

Cotton Spinners & Manufacturers Association.

Genre:

Table books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([192]p. )

Other Title:

Ready numberer

Place of Publication:

Manchester : printed by Cowdroy & Bowden, Gazette Office, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester, 1798.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T122244.

OCLC:

642331475