Note 2 — Chapter X
Reading edition
A list of these inventions most graphically illustrates this advance:—
1738,John Jay, fly-shuttle.
John Wyatt, spinning by rollers.
1748,Lewis Paul, carding-machine.
1760, Robert Kay, drop-box.
1769,Richard Arkwright, water-frame and throstle.
James Watt, steam-engine.
1772,James Lees, improvements on carding-machine.
1775,Richard Arkwright, series of combinations.
1779,Samuel Compton, mule.
1785,Edmund Cartwright, power-loom.
1803–4,Radcliffe and Johnson, dressing-machine.
1817,Roberts, fly-frame.
1818,William Eaton, self-acting frame.
1825–30,Roberts, improvements on mule.
Cf. Baines, History of the Cotton Manufacture, pp. 116–231; Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., article "Cotton."