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Excerpt from Reports of the United States Commissioners, Vol. 3: To the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867
But if it is correct to say, on the one hand, that the demand produced the machine, it is no less true, on the other, that the machine stimulated the demand to a most extraordinary degree. From the insignificant amount of pounds of American cotton received in England in 1791, the exportation to that country rose in ten years to At the same time, the practically unlimited extent of soil adapted to this culture on the American continent made it evident that the demand might grow to any extent Without producing a corresponding increase of price, or even with an actual reduction. Such a supply of a material capable of being wrought into the largest variety of textile fabrics could not but stimulate the introduction of numerous and signal improvements into all the processes of manufacture. Thus the creation of the automatic machinery by which the production of cotton fabrics, early within this century, rose to a hundred-fold what it had been at the close of the last.
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But if it is correct to say, on the one hand, that the demand produced the machine, it is no less true, on the other, that the machine stimulated the demand to a most extraordinary degree. From the insignificant amount of pounds of American cotton received in England in 1791, the exportation to that country rose in ten years to At the same time, the practically unlimited extent of soil adapted to this culture on the American continent made it evident that the demand might grow to any extent Without producing a corresponding increase of price, or even with an actual reduction. Such a supply of a material capable of being wrought into the largest variety of textile fabrics could not but stimulate the introduction of numerous and signal improvements into all the processes of manufacture. Thus the creation of the automatic machinery by which the production of cotton fabrics, early within this century, rose to a hundred-fold what it had been at the close of the last.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William P. Blake
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