Howard & Bullough American Machine Company

Howard & Bullough American Machine Company was the American arm of the better-known Howard & Bullough textile machinery business, which began in Lancashire, England and grew into one of the major makers of equipment for cotton mills. In the United States, the company operated in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where it manufactured machinery for processes such as opening, picking, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, twisting, and winding.

The company is credited as the author of Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery, a substantial trade catalog rather than a conventional narrative book. Works like this were designed to show mill owners and engineers exactly what the firm could build, combining technical descriptions with diagrams and plates. For modern listeners and readers, that makes the catalog useful not just as industrial advertising, but as a snapshot of how textile production was organized and explained in its era.

Because this is a corporate author, there is no single personal biography behind the name. The most interesting story here is the company itself: a transatlantic manufacturer linking British engineering traditions with American industry at a time when cotton machinery was central to factory production.