The Slater cloth and the Victoria Patent are on display at the Windham Textile & History Museum.



The Ohio Repository

Canton, Ohio

April 19, 1838

Page 2

We find the following interesting chrono

logy of Cotton in the February number of the A

merican Quarterly Register published  at Boston

Mass.

1730    Mr Watt spins the first cotton

             yarn in England by machinery

1735    The Dutch first exported cotton

              from Surinam

1742 ...