The Draper Loom in New England Textiles: A Comment
- 1 December 1968
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 28 (4) , 624-627
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700101007
Abstract
The September 1966 issue of this Journal contains a study by Professor Irwin Feller on the rate of adoption of the Draper Automatic Loom in the New England cotton textile industry. I have no quarrel with his central conclusions concerning the economic rationality of the New England cotton manufacturers. I do, however, have some comments on his analysis of the relative costs of producing cloth on plain (power) as opposed to automatic looms.Keywords
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- The Draper Loom in New England Textiles, 1894–1914: A Study of Diffusion of an InnovationThe Journal of Economic History, 1966