Journal Article Progress of the Automatic Loom Get access Melvin T. Copeland Melvin T. Copeland Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 4, August 1911, Pages 746–750, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885841 Published: 01 August 1911

Journal Article The Duties on Cotton Goods in the Tariff Act of 1910 Get access Melvin T. Copeland Melvin T. Copeland Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 24, Issue 2, February 1910, Pages 422–428, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883564 Published: 01 February 1910

Outline of the manufacturing process, 110. — Improvements in the various departments since 1860, 112. — I. Preliminary processes: opening, picking, carding, and drawing, 112. — Relative importance of contributions by American and by English inventors, 120. — II. Ring spinning and mule spinning compared, 121. — Reasons why former predominates in United States and the latter in Great Britain, 129. — III. Preparation of warp yarn, 133. — Spooling, 133. — Warping, 134. — And Sizing, 136. — IV. Weaving, 140. — Plain looms, 143. Automatic looms, 144. — Comparison with methods of weaving in Europe, 147. — V. Variety of methods and machines for finishing the cloth, 152. — Bleaching, 152. — Printing, 153. — Dyeing, 153. — Mercerizing, 156. — Finishing, 157. — Significance of the improvements in the machinery and processes for manufacturing cotton cloth during the last fifty years, 158.