The early English cotton industry

by George W. Daniels

[254] Ibid., p. 266. It appears, however, that he may have invented this machine as early as 1740 (ibid., 256).

[255] Espinasse, ibid., p. 365.

[256] Dobson, ibid., 36-37.

[257] Dobson, ibid., p. 37.

[258] Kennedy, Brief Memoir of Samuel Crompton, p. 326.

[259] Baines, ibid., pp. 177-179.

[260] Espinasse, ibid., p. 320.

[261] Brown, The Basis of Mr. Samuel Crompton’s Claims (reprint, Manchester, 1868), p. 28.

[262] Baines, ibid., p. 156.

[263] Espinasse, ibid., pp. 322, 327.