Paul-Wyatt cotton mills

Diagram of rollers and bobbin from Paul's 1758 patent.

The Paul-Wyatt cotton mills were the world's first mechanised cotton spinning factories.[1] Operating from 1741 until 1764 they were built to house the roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt. They were not very profitable but they spun cotton successfully for several decades.[2]

  1. ^ Mann, Julia de Lacey; Wadsworth, Alfred. P. (1931). "The first cotton spinning factories". The cotton trade and industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 433–448. OCLC 2859370.
  2. ^ Žmolek, Michael Andrew (2013). Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-25179-3.