How to Develop Productive Industry in India and the East - Mills and Factories

Klappentext This 1867 work provides a blueprint for developing Indian industries, and urges investment in up-to-date machinery to boost productivity. Zusammenfassung This 1867 work! edited by P. R. Cola! who owned the Arkwright Cotton Mills in Bombay (Mumbai)! provides a blueprint for developing industries in nineteenth-century India. Containing illustrations and statistical data! the book argues for investment in up-to-date machinery to boost industrial productivity in textiles! metals! sugar and oil. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Industrial development in India and the East; 2. Cotton ginning; 3. Cotton manufactures; 4. Bleaching and finishing works; 5. Dyeing; 6. Calico printing; 7. Jute manufactures; 8. Silk manufactures; 9. Sugar; 10. Manufactures of oils; 11. Oil gas; 12. Paper manufactures; 13. Iron foundry and workshops; 14. Timber mills; 15. Corn mills; 16. Brick works; 17. Steam motive power; 18. Coal mines in India and the East; 19. Factory buildings; 20. General hints on factories; 21. Agricultural machinery; Appendix; Index.

Product details

• Authors: P. R. Cola, Cola P. R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9781108046237
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04623-7
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology