• Thumbnail for Cotton mill
    A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the...
    75 KB (9,058 words) - 00:29, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Redevelopment of Mumbai mills
    The redevelopment of Mumbai's cotton mills began in 1992, when efforts began to demolish the numerous cotton mills that once dotted the landscape of Mumbai...
    11 KB (622 words) - 13:48, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roxboro Cotton Mill
    Roxboro Cotton Mill is a historic cotton mill complex located at Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina. It was built in 1899, and is a two-story, banked...
    2 KB (132 words) - 12:50, 31 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cotton
    candy Cotton carding Cotton gin Cotton mill The Cotton Museum Cotton recycling Diplomacy of the American Civil War § Cotton and the British economy Environmental...
    115 KB (13,088 words) - 23:35, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cotton gin
    A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity...
    29 KB (3,605 words) - 16:10, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jamshedji Tata
    and established Empress Mill in Nagpur, afterwards purchasing a bankrupt oil mill in Mumbai and converting it into a cotton mill. Tata's innovative strategies...
    22 KB (2,252 words) - 05:42, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quarry Bank Mill
    in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Quarry Bank Mill was established...
    33 KB (3,578 words) - 03:25, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cromford Mill
    Cromford Mill is the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill structure...
    19 KB (1,805 words) - 14:55, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shelby Cotton Mill
    Shelby Cotton Mill is an historical textile mill located in Shelby, North Carolina. Built in 1900, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
    2 KB (93 words) - 04:56, 23 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Lancashire Cotton Famine
    the Lancashire region's extensive cotton mill workforce. Factory owners no longer bought large quantities of raw cotton to process and large parts of Lancashire...
    36 KB (4,790 words) - 17:43, 30 May 2024
  • The Fries Cotton Mill (also known as the Fries Cotton and Woolen Mill, the Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and F & H Fries Manufacturing Company) was...
    6 KB (810 words) - 23:28, 13 September 2021
  • Thumbnail for Cotton-spinning machinery
    spinning machinery was installed in large factories, commonly known as cotton mills. The spinning wheel was invented in the Islamic world by 1030. It later...
    12 KB (1,246 words) - 05:51, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Derwent Valley Mills
    Valley Mills Partnership. The modern factory, or 'mill', system was born here in the 18th century to accommodate the new technology for spinning cotton developed...
    35 KB (4,465 words) - 14:33, 17 August 2024
  • mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, often cotton mills...
    26 KB (778 words) - 23:20, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lala Kamlapat Singhania
    major business set up by him was a cotton mill with the name of Juggilal Kamlapat Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills in 1921 which laid the foundation for...
    14 KB (1,232 words) - 13:56, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of cotton
    become a net importer of cotton cloth. Modernization of the industry was attempted in 1959 with the Cotton Industry Act. Mill closures occurred in Lancashire...
    54 KB (6,598 words) - 21:49, 15 August 2024
  • Priory Cotton Mill, opened in Birmingham, England in the summer of 1741, was the world's first mechanised cotton-spinning factory or cotton mill. Established...
    8 KB (1,066 words) - 20:01, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution
    The scale of production in the mill towns round Manchester created a need for a commercial structure; for a cotton exchange and warehousing. The technology...
    47 KB (5,983 words) - 09:26, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spinning jenny
    History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain;. London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson. Nasmith, Joseph (1895). Recent Cotton Mill Construction...
    15 KB (1,817 words) - 06:57, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Factory Acts
    regulating the hours of work and moral welfare of young children employed in cotton mills but were effectively unenforced until the Act of 1833 established a professional...
    150 KB (17,068 words) - 21:32, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edale
    Edale (section Cotton mill)
    Booth).: 27–33  Edale is the site of a historic cotton mill built in 1795 on the site of a corn mill and tannery by Nicholas Cresswell in partnership...
    12 KB (1,146 words) - 16:55, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jedediah Strutt
    using water power. Strutt and Need joined Arkwright in the building of a cotton mill at Cromford, using what was henceforth called Arkwright's water frame...
    7 KB (758 words) - 14:45, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cannelton Cotton Mill
    Cannelton Cotton Mill, also known as Indiana Cotton Mill, is a National Historic Landmark of the United States located in Cannelton, Indiana, United States...
    7 KB (707 words) - 12:59, 30 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819
    The Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 (59 Geo. 3. c. 66) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was its first attempt to regulate...
    17 KB (2,261 words) - 01:13, 21 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Industrial Revolution
    Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787, the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of its era, and a significant milestone...
    258 KB (30,031 words) - 07:02, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pickett Cotton Mills
    The Pickett Cotton Mills is a historic industrial property at 1200 Redding Drive in southwestern High Point, North Carolina. The mill complex includes...
    2 KB (162 words) - 11:03, 6 September 2018
  • Thumbnail for Mill (grinding)
    finished products Textile mill Silk mill, for silk Flax mill, for flax Cotton mill, for cotton Huller (also called a rice mill, or rice husker) is used...
    17 KB (2,147 words) - 08:01, 27 October 2024
  • futures, but disagreements between cotton mill owners and merchants led to the 1893 creation of the Bombay Cotton Exchange as a rival organization. The...
    2 KB (235 words) - 01:11, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boott Mills
    3084°W / 42.6482; -71.3084 The Boott Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts were a part of an extensive group of cotton mills, built in 1835 alongside a power canal...
    6 KB (645 words) - 06:18, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tata Group
    Further, he bought a bankrupt oil mill at Chinchpokli and converted it into a cotton mill, under the name Alexandra Mill which he sold for a profit after...
    52 KB (4,213 words) - 03:53, 5 November 2024