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Early experimentation in cotton uses
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Calico ACT
English Lawmakers feeling threatened by East India Fabrics attempt to restrict their importation the use of Cheaper Cotton Fabrics. -
Cotton Into Cloth
An attempt to work cotton into workable fabric is recorded.
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Early days of cotton manufacture
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Inovation
James Hargreaves Invents the Spinning Jenny. A device that aids in weaving cotton fabric.
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Refinement
Samuel Crompton refines the invention of several fabric weaving devices into the Spinning Mule. -
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Pre-Civil War Cotton Production
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Modern Weaving Comes to America.
Samuel Slater brings the secrets of the British Fabric Mills to American. Demand for Cotton increases. -
American Ingenuity. Changes the World
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. Revolutionizing not only the fabric industry but changes the cotton industry for the world.
