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Cotton-manufacture.) Yarn made by the throstle, or water-frame; so called because in the first cotton-mill, which was organized by Arkwright, the motive-power was a water-wheel.

Draining-wheel at Laxey.

Previous to the time of Arkwright (his patents were 1769 and 1775), all the operations of cotton were done by operatives at their homes. The cotton was hand-carded, spun, and woven by men, women, and children, who took a bunch of work home and returned it when completed, the houses of the cottagers being in clusters around central distributing-depots, or scattered over the country. Arkwright centralized the busi- [2746] ness, and organized it in manufactories where the operations were concertedly performed.

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