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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cotton

Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the Cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. Cotton is a valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processing. Once traces of wax, protein, etc. are removed, the remainder is a natural polymer of pure cellulose. This cellulose is arranged in a way that gives cotton unique pro ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia II - Cotton mill - Processing the cotton Cotton mills get the cotton shipped to them in large, 500 pound bales. When the cotton comes out of a bale, it is all packed together and still contains vegetable matter. In order to fluff up the cotton and remove the vegetable matter, the cotton is sent through a picker. A picker looks similar to the carding machine and the cotton gin, but is slightly different. The cotton is fed into the machine and gets beaten with a beater bar, to loosen it up. The cotton then collects on a screen and gets fed through various ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cotton picker

The current cotton picker is a self-propelled machine that removes cotton lint and seed (seed-cotton) from the plant at up to six rows at a time. It uses rows of spindles that rotate at high speed and remove the seed-cotton from the plant. The seed-cotton is then removed from the spindles by a counter-rotating doffer and is then blown up into a basket located on the picker. Once the basket is full the picker dumps the seedcotton into a "module builder". The module builder creates a compacter "brick" of seed-cotton which can be stored i

Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cotton gin

The cotton gin is a machine invented by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 to mechanize the production of cotton fiber. The machine quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seedpods and the sometimes sticky seeds. It uses a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through the screen, while brushes continuously remove the loose cotton lint to prevent jams. The invention was granted a patent on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin was a large asset to the American economy. The term "gin" is an abbreviation for engine, and means "device", ...

Cotton: Encyclopedia II - Cotton - History

Cotton has been used to make very fine lightweight cloth in areas with tropical climates for millennia. Some authorities claim that it was likely that the Egyptians had cotton as early as 12,000 BC, and evidence has been found of cotton in Mexican caves (cotton cloth and fragments of bloody fibre interwoven with feathers and fur) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated different species of cotton ind ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728). B.A. 1678 (Harvard College), M.A. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and politically-influential "Puritan" minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Cotton Mather was the son of influential minister Increase Mather. Mather attended Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1678, at only 15 years of age. After completing his post-graduate work, he joined his father as assistant Pastor of Boston's original North Church (not to b ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cotton Pygmy Goose

The Cotton Pygmy Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus) is a small perching duck which breeds in India and southeast Asia and south to northern Australia. It is largely resident, apart from dispersion in the wet season, but Chinese birds winter further south. It nests in tree holes, laying 8-15 eggs. The habitat is still freshwater lakes, where this neat duck feeds on seeds and other vegetation, especially water lilies. This species has a short bill, rounded head and short legs. The breeding male has white neck, ...

Cotton: Encyclopedia - Air filter

An air filter is a device which removes contaminants, often solid particles such as dust, pollen, mold, and bacteria from air. They are often used in internal combustion engines, gas compressors, diving air compressors, ventilation systems, and any other application where air quality is important. Engine intakes tend to use either paper, foam, or cotton filters. Some buildings, as well as planes and other man-made environments (e.g., satellites and space shuttles) use foam, pleated paper, or spun fiberglass filter elemen ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - William Mason locomotive builder

William Mason (1808-1883) was a master mechanical engineer and builder of railroad steam locomotives. He founded Mason Machine Works of Taunton, Massachusetts. William Mason locomotive builder - Youth and education. Mason was born in 1808 in Mystic, Connecticut, the son of a blacksmith. As a boy, Mason spent time in his father's shops. He left home at the age of twelve and worked as an operator in the spinning room of a small cotton factory. He was a born mechanical genius and could repair the most complica ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - List of Hobbits

Hobbits are a fictional race in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books. They first appear in The Hobbit and play an important role in the book The Lord of the Rings. This is a list of hobbits that are mentioned by name in Tolkien's works. They are ordered alphabetically by first name. In cases where a hobbit’s family name was changed, usually through marriage, their original family name is given in parentheses. Nicknames are listed in quotation marks. Note that the years are given in years of the Third Age (unless other ...

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cottonseed oil

Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the cotton plant after the cotton lint has been removed. It must be refined to remove gossypol, a naturally occurring toxin that protects the cotton plant from insect damage. Therefore, unrefined cottonseed oil is sometimes used as a pesticide. Cottonseed oil has no cholesterol and is very low in trans fatty acids. It is commonly used ...

Cotton: Encyclopedia - Velveteen

Velveteen is a cotton cloth made in imitation of velvet. The term is sometimes applied to a mixture of silk and cotton. Some velveteens are a kind of fustian, having a rib of velvet pile alternating with a plain depression. The velveteen trade varies a good deal with the fashions that control the production of velvet. ...

Cotton: Encyclopedia - Baize

Baize is a coarse woollen or cotton cloth, often coloured red or green. It is often used on snooker and billiards tables (it is the green cloth that covers the top and is often referred to as 'the green baize'). The term is related to the cloth term "bays" (sometimes under the heading "bays and says"). Other related archivesbilliards, cloth, cotton, green, snooker, woollen

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Cambric

Cambric is a lightweight cotton cloth used as fabric for lace and needlework. Cambric, also known as batist in a large part of the world, was invented by Jean-Baptiste Cambrai, France, which gave the fabric its name, as early as 1595; It is a closely woven, firm fabric with a slight glossy surface produced by calendering. Modern cambric is made from Egyptian or American cotton and sometimes flax, but also polymer fibres can be added. Other related archives1595, American, Egyptian, France, bat

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Cotton: Encyclopedia - Bombazine

Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Good bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material. Black bombazine was once used largely for mourning wear, but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th century. The word is derived from the obsolete French bombasin, applied originally to silk but afterwards to tree-silk or cotton. Bombazine is said to have been made in England in Elizabeth I's reign, and early in ...