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  • Thumbnail for Richard Arkwright
    water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to 'cotton lap' prior to spinning. He was the first to develop factories housing...
    22 KB (2,101 words) - 19:58, 20 October 2024
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    Cotton-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. Such machinery can be dated back centuries...
    12 KB (1,246 words) - 05:51, 18 September 2024
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    (sliver or tow) at the conclusion of this stage. The cotton comes off of the picking machine in laps, and is then taken to carding machines. The carders...
    21 KB (2,664 words) - 17:43, 22 November 2024
  • Thomas Obrey "Cotton" Priddy (August 29, 1928 – June 10, 1956) was a NASCAR Grand National race car driver from Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was the driver...
    4 KB (291 words) - 13:52, 21 August 2024
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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...
    75 KB (9,058 words) - 00:29, 14 July 2024
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    cotton, aided by fans, then collects on a screen and gets fed through more rollers where it emerges as a continuous soft fleecy sheet, known as a lap...
    45 KB (5,748 words) - 03:25, 7 August 2024
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    Scutching (category Cotton production)
    the raw material into a continuous sheet of cotton wadding known as a lap.[citation needed] Before cotton is processed, it has to be cleaned of its seeds...
    6 KB (835 words) - 21:50, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roller printing on textiles
    wrapped with several thicknesses of a special material made of wool and cotton lapping, the object of which is to provide the elasticity necessary to enable...
    17 KB (2,679 words) - 20:54, 22 June 2024
  • Jones. Later, Wendell tells his mother he does not want to work in the cotton mill and plans to use his muster pay to buy a taxicab, eventually open a...
    8 KB (1,045 words) - 04:59, 13 July 2024
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    Yarn (redirect from Cotton yarn)
    fiber materials developing from animal hides, to reeds, to early fabrics. Cotton, wool, and silk were the first materials for yarn, and textile trade contributed...
    31 KB (3,619 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2024
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    Piqué, or marcella, refers to a weaving style, normally used with cotton yarn, which is characterized by raised parallel cords or geometric designs in...
    7 KB (625 words) - 02:05, 3 October 2024
  • Romney at 2%; Christie at 1%; Cotton, Noem and Rick Scott at 0% Tom Cotton at 4%; Romney, Bolton and Kasich at 1% Cotton, Hutchinson, Hawley, Crenshaw...
    236 KB (8,222 words) - 21:34, 26 August 2024
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    Mount Cotton Hillclimb is a permanent tarmac hillclimbing circuit at Mount Cotton, Queensland, Australia. It is owned and run by the MG Car Club of Queensland...
    3 KB (81 words) - 22:01, 20 September 2024
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    making it the biggest durian producer in northern Thailand. Handwoven cotton from Laplae, using natural dyes, are a five-star OTOP product. The district...
    7 KB (751 words) - 04:00, 7 November 2024
  • motion. One intent O'erlooks the work; the carded wool, he says, So smoothly lapped around those cylinders, Which gently turning, yield it to yon cirue Of upright...
    4 KB (437 words) - 12:16, 7 September 2024
  • and kill him. This prompts Deborah and Trinice to stuff their ears with cotton to protect themselves from Regina's influence. After fending off the mind-controlled...
    115 KB (53 words) - 12:18, 28 October 2024
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    266 518 Comanche 121,125 1069 Lawton, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area Cotton 5,527 637 Lawton, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area Craig 14,107 761 Creek...
    332 KB (1,472 words) - 18:27, 12 November 2024
  • 2020 Coal County  Oklahoma 1996 2020 Comanche County  Oklahoma 1964 2020 Cotton County  Oklahoma 1996 2020 Craig County  Oklahoma 1996 2020 Creek County...
    268 KB (520 words) - 13:39, 22 November 2024
  • many reasons. Yarn may be doubled to produce warp for weaving, to make cotton for lace, crochet and knitting. It is used for embroidery threads and sewing...
    6 KB (814 words) - 22:21, 5 November 2023
  • Everett "Cotton" Owens (May 21, 1924 – June 7, 2012) was a NASCAR driver. For five straight years (1957–61), Owens captured at least one Grand National...
    55 KB (2,780 words) - 22:34, 9 November 2024
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