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Howard & Bullough American Machine Company
A textile-machinery manufacturer rather than an individual writer, this company is best known for publishing a richly detailed 1909 catalog of cotton machinery. Its work offers a vivid window into the industrial world of spinning, winding, and weaving at the height of the cotton era.
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Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery
by Howard & Bullough American Machine Company
About the author
Founded in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, as the American arm of the British firm Howard & Bullough, the company became part of a larger textile-machinery tradition that grew out of Lancashire engineering in the 19th century. Historical references connect the American company with the better-known Howard & Bullough business based in Accrington, England.
The name appears today mainly as the corporate author of Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery Built by Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd. Published in 1909, that catalog gathered technical information on machinery for opening, picking, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, twisting, winding, and related mill operations.
For modern readers, the catalog is valuable not as a personal literary work but as a snapshot of industrial history. It shows how manufacturers presented complex machinery to mill owners and engineers, and it preserves the language, diagrams, and practical detail of early 20th-century textile production.