The Story of the Cotton Plant
by Frederick Wilkinson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wilkinson, Frederick
- Credits
- Produced by Peter Vachuska, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TS: Technology: Manufactures
- Subject
- Cotton
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 29586
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29586
- Release Date
- August 3, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE LIBRARY OF USEFUL STORIES
- 3.COTTON PLANT — BY — FREDERICK WILKINSON, F. G. S. — WITH THIRTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS — NEW YORK AND LONDON — D. APPLETON AND COMPANY — 1912 — Copyright , 1898, 1902, — By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. — Printed in the United States of America — PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.THE STORY OF THE COTTON PLANT.
- 7.CHAPTER I. — ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND CHIEF CULTIVATED SPECIES OF COTTON PLANT.
- 8.CHAPTER II. — COTTON-PLANT DISEASES AND PESTS.
- 9.CHAPTER III. — CULTIVATION OF THE COTTON PLANT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
- 10.CHAPTER IV. — THE MICROSCOPE AND COTTON FIBRE.
- 11.CHAPTER V. — PLANTATION LIFE AND THE EARLY CLEANING PROCESSES.
- 12.CHAPTER VI. — MANIPULATION OF COTTON IN OPENING, SCUTCHING, CARDING, DRAWING, AND FLY-FRAME MACHINES.
- 13.CHAPTER VII. — EARLY ATTEMPTS AT SPINNING, AND EARLY INVENTORS.
- 14.CHAPTER VIII. — FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS—ARKWRIGHT AND CROMPTON.
- 15.CHAPTER IX. — THE MODERN SPINNING MULE.
- 16.CHAPTER X. — OTHER PROCESSES IN COTTON SPINNING.
- 17.CHAPTER XI. — DESTINATION OF THE SPUN YARN.
- 18.INDEX. — THE END.
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