The firm is prominent in making equipment for cleaning seed cotton, driers, and heaters, and they lay claim to being the first maker ( 1910 ) of boil extraction equipment.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

During the 1950s — as a result of these improvements and the strong international export prices — beef, cotton, and coffee became significant export products for the first time.

At first the leading industry, based in the west, was the spinning and weaving of cotton.

Using two sets of rollers that travelled at different speeds, it was later used in the first cotton spinning mill.

He created the cotton mill which brought the production processes together in a factory, and he developed the use of power — first horse power and then water power — which made cotton manufacture a mechanised industry.

Thomas Somers and the Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787, the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of its era, and a significant milestone in the research and development of cotton mills in the future.

Modern industry first appeared in textiles, including cotton and especially silk, which was based in home workshops in rural areas.

One of the earliest known examples of knitting was cotton socks with stranded knit color patterns, found in Egypt from the end of the first millennium AD.

Jerusalem was especially involved in the silk, cotton and spice trade ; other items that first appeared in Europe through trade with crusader Jerusalem included oranges and sugar, the latter of which chronicler William of Tyre called " very necessary for the use and health of mankind.

In the first year, Germany received one million tons of cereals, half a million tons of wheat, 900, 000 tons of oil, 100, 000 tons of cotton, 500, 000 tons of phosphates and considerable amounts of other vital raw materials, along with the transit of one million tons of soybeans from Manchuria.

After the American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ) many loyalists fled to Caribbean colonies, including ( in 1783 ) the first settlers on the Caicos Islands ; cotton became an important crop briefly.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid / trunklid, bonnet / hood, bumpers / fenders and doors in Duroplast, a hard plastic similar to bakelite made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

* Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton.

Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7, 000 years ago ( 5th millennium BC ), by the inhabitants of Indus Valley civilisation currently situated in Western Pakistan, for example as the site of Mehrgarh where early cotton thread has been preserved in copper beads.

Improving technology and increasing control of world markets allowed British traders to develop a commercial chain in which raw cotton fibers were ( at first ) purchased from colonial plantations, processed into cotton cloth in the mills of Lancashire, and then exported on British ships to captive colonial markets in West Africa, India, and China ( via Shanghai and Hong Kong ).

The first Chinese paper was made of cotton fiber.

The first medical use of cotton wool was by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee at the Queen's Hospital ( later the General Hospital ) in Birmingham, England.

The strategy is to sequence first the D-genome relative of allotetraploid cottons, G. raimondii, a wild South American ( Peru, Ecuador ) cotton species, because of its smaller size due essentially to less repetitive DNA ( retrotransposons mainly ).

The first material called " duck tape " was long strips of plain cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear.

Some date it from woman suffrage, others from when women first began to challenge men in the marketplace, still others from the era of the emancipated flapper and bathtub gin.

When the first pubs were built, the main room was the public room with a large serving bar copied from the gin houses, the idea being to serve the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time.

Although simple handheld roller gins have been used since at least 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794.

The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single-roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.

Mordecai brought the first cotton gin to Alabama.

Sterling City opened its first cotton gin in 1895 ; with others established later.

The county's first cotton gin was built in 1826.

In 1793, Mount Pleasant, a cotton plantation east of Washington, was the site where Eli Whitney first perfected his revolutionary invention, the cotton gin.

The first cotton gin was built in the early l850s, and the first census showed Sabine had a population of 3, 347 whites and 1, 168 slaves.

The town's first general store operated in a boxcar, soon followed by Keiser Supply and a Lee Wilson & Company gin.

In 1821 the Armstrong and Attaway Company built the first cotton gin at nearby Saffold Navy Yard.

At the cotton gin Edna negotiates her first deal but they try to sell her poor quality cotton seed.

During her wait in the bank, Edna sees pictures of the Ellis County prize of $ 100 for the first bale of cotton brought in to the gin.

Delhomme owned the first hay-mowing machine, grit mill and cotton gin.

Whately was the site of the state's first gin distillery, as well as other small mills, including wool and furniture mills.

In the ensuing years, several modern amenities were introduced in the village, including the first cotton gin ( 1910 ), a public water system ( 1922 ), and electrical service ( 1927 ).

J. E. Galloway was the first mayor ; Perry Rodkey, first postman ; E. D. Dexter, first hotel operator ; W. H. Dill ran the first telephone company ; John D. Richards had the first hardware store ; McGee Brothers put in the first cotton gin and E. E. Shook established the first lumber yard.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

A united Germany, freed of militarism, might be the first step toward disarmament and peace in a terrorized and tortured world.

To our everlasting shame, we led the world in this nuclear arms race sixteen years ago when we dropped the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

The first slanting rays of the new day cannot yet dispel all the dark shadows which lie across the Aegean world ; ;

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Hitler did just that 23 years ago, building up tensions that first led to a Munich and then to a world war.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

It was in the 1960s that the bipolar dominance of England and Australia in world cricket was seriously challenged for the first time.

The works of Petrarch first displayed the new interest in the intellectual values of the Classical world in the early 14th century and the romance of this era as rediscovered in the Renaissance period can be seen expressed by Boccaccio.

Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.

In 1893 it extended voting rights to women, making New Zealand the first country in the world to enact universal female suffrage.

* 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.

George W. Snedecor, the head of Iowa State's Statistics Department, was very likely the first user of an electronic digital computer to solve real world mathematics problems.

( c. 4 ), who likewise follows Hippolytus's Compendium, adds some further particulars ; that ' Abraxas ' gave birth to Mind ( nous ), the first in the series of primary powers enumerated likewise by Irenaeus and Epiphanius ; that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of ' Abraxas ;' and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by ' Abraxas.