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The Draper Loom in New England Textiles: A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Irwin Feller
Irwin Feller
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
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Professor Sandberg in a very helpful comment has accepted the main conclusions of my paper on die economic rationality of New England mill owners with respect to the adoption of the Draper loom but has raised certain questions as to my handling of some of the data used to reach this conclusion and of the very representativeness of the data themselves.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 628 - 630
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1968

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References

1 United States Congress, United States Tariff Board, Report on Cotton Manufactures, 62d Cong., 1st Sess., 1912, House Document 643, 463-64.

2 Feller, Irwin, “The Draper Loom in New England Textiles, 1894-1914: A Study of Diffusion of an Innovation,” The Journal Of Economic History, XXVI (09 1966), 320–47, at pp. 337-39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar