Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

Cotton 18 vent better methods. The British were the first to succeed, but recently Americans have surpassed them in the invention of im- provements. The spinning machine of today spins more than a thousand threads at a time and winds each on a spindle. One man running two such machines can make more than three hundred pounds of thread each day. We may be certain that we have not come to the end of im- provements; every few years new devices are invented to make thread faster, better, and cheaper. How cotton is woven into cloth. When the thread is spun, the next step is to weave it into cloth. In ancient times this was done by placing two sticks in parallel positions a few feet apart and stretching a great many threads — the warp — from one stick to the other in such a way that they would lie side by side. Then a single thread — the woof — was passed across the other threads, running over the first, under the second, over the third, under the fourth, and so on until it reached the other side. It was then passed back again, but this time it went over the threads that it had previously gone under, and under those that it had previously gone over. Later, the hand Fig. 11. Primitive cotton manufacturing as carried on in northern India the left is spinning; the man at the right is weaving Ellsworth Huntington today. The man at

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