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    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...
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    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...
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    A cotton gin — meaning "cotton engine" — is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity...
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    candy Cotton carding Cotton gin Cotton mill The Cotton Museum Cotton recycling Diplomacy of the American Civil War § Cotton and the British economy Environmental...
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    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...
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    ventured into the textile industry, buying a bankrupt oil mill and converting it into a cotton mill. Tata's innovative strategies and commitment to industrial...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Revolution Cotton Mills, also known as Revolution Division and Cone Mills, is a historic cotton mill complex located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North...
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    The Mills (Chinese: 南豐紗廠), formerly known as Nang Fung Cotton Mills, located at No. 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Chai Wan Kok, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, was founded...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    construction of three additional cotton mills in the valley: the Upper mill, Lower mill, and Crescent mill. The Lower Cotton Mill, designed by Atherton and financed...
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    Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA from...
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  • Cotton Mill, Treadmill (French: On est au coton) is a documentary film directed by Denys Arcand, about the conditions of workers in the textile industry...
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    History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain;. London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson. Nasmith, Joseph (1895). Recent Cotton Mill Construction...
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  • Showdown at the Cotton Mill (Chinese title: 胡惠乾血戰西幝寺; Mandarin: Hu Hui Chien xie zhan xi chan si), also released as Cold Face, Heart and Blood, is a 1978...
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    Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is a formerly operating mill complex located in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Construction of the complex...
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    Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning...
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  • town's customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who at first seem to despise their social inferiors. The story...
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