Cotton Manufacturing

Cotton manufacture—Hygienic aspects—Congresses. 2. Byssinosis—Congresses. 3. Cotton manufacture—Dust control—Congresses. 

The process now coming into general use for gun-cotton manufacture is tin. result of important improvements devised by Messrs J. M. and W. T. Thomsen of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey (British Patent, 8,278, 190.3 D.R. Patent, 172,499, 1904). The following description is taken largely from tint paper by Colonel Sir F. L. Nathan in the Journal oj the Society of Chemical Industry, 27th February 1909. To the Council of the Society and to Sir Frederic Nathan my best thanks are due for their kind permission to use the accompanying illustrations. 

Alabama Cotton Manufacturers Association, Montgomery, Ala. D. H. Morris, III, president Dwight M. Wilhelm, executive vice president. 

American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, Inc., Charlotte, New York, and Washington, D. C. Chas. C. Hertwig, president F. S. Love, secretary-treasurer. 

Cotton Manufacturers Association of Georgia. Henry W. Swift, president, Columbus, Ga. T. M. 

National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, 80 Federal St., Boston, Mass. William F. Sullivan, president. 

New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Association, Masonic Building, New Bedford, Mass. F. W. Steele, executive-secretary. 

North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association. Julian Robertson, president, Salisbury, N. C. Hunter Marshall, secretary-treasurer, Charlotte 2, N. C. 

Dominion Textile Company, Ltd., Gardenvale, Quebec, Cotton Manufacturing, 1941. 

Good general reference, more condensed than American Cotton Handbook (IP), on all the processes in cotton manufacture. 

Readings are taken thirty minutes from the time the nitro-cellulose is heated, and are taken at intervals of fifteen minutes for about four hours fresh caustic potash is added every thirty minutes or so. It is convenient to plot the results in curves. The curves given in Fig. 53 are from gun-cotton manufacturers in England at a private factory. The rate of evolution of nitrogen is as follows —... 

Lead cylinders fortesting strength of explosives, 281. Lenk s improvements in gun-cotton manufacture, 49. Lewes on the pressure of cordite, 175. 

Calico ka-li- ko [Calicut, India] (1578) n. A plain, closely woven, inexpensive cloth, usually cotton or a cotton/manufactured fiber blend, characteristically having figured patterns on a white or contrasting background. Calico is typically used for aprons, dresses, and quilts. 

Stockinette Sta-ko- net [alter, of earlier stocking net] (1784) n. A knit fabric in tubular or flat form made with a plain stitch from yarns of wool, cotton, manufactured fibers, or a combination of these fibers. Stockinette fabrics are used for underwear, industrial applications, and other purposes. In heavier constructions, dyed and napped stockinette finds apparel uses. Also spelled stockinet. 

Selected Dyestuffs Used by 23 Important Cotton Manufacturers, 1913 and 1916, 54... 

Tichenor report in Hesse, Lest We Forget , 702 Copeland discusses the cotton manufacturers associations. Copeland, The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of the United States (1917), 155-56 Galambos, Competition and... 

Herty speech, The Dyestuff Situation, April 4, 1916, before the American Cotton Manufacturers Association Herty to Charles R. Miller, New York Times, April 10, 1916 Herty to W. L. Saunders, Ingersoll-Rand Company and Naval Consulting Board, May 3, 1916, CHH, box 81. 

National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, 196 National Carbon Company, 276 National defense, chemical industry as, 144, 193-94 National Exposition of Chemical Industries, 120 Nationalism. See Anti-German sentiment National Research Council, 85, 87, 96-98, 130 Naval Consulting Board, 85 Nazism, 14, 288-89... 

Garvan, 1919. Francis P. Garvan. Address. .. at the Annual Dinner of the National Cotton Manufacturers Association. Hotel Biltmore, New York, Friday evening, April 25, 1919. n.p., n.d. Copy in Widener Library, Harvard University (Econ7540. 09.19bx). 

The first Health Safety legislation in the UK was introduced by Sir Robert Peel, a cotton manufacturer who was appalled at the working conditions iti his own mills, particularly with respect to the use of child labour. This became law in 1802 as the Health Morals of prentices Bill which became the first Factory Act, despite strong opposition from mill-owners. Although this legislation was extremely limited in that it only dealt with apprentices who were sent to the mills from workhouses, that is, those which were the responsibility of the state it is important as it initiated the whole modem system of state regulation in industry. 

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