Wacha, Dinshaw Edulji; Tata, Jamsetji Nasarwanji [Honoree]: The life and life work of J. N. Tata (Madras, 1914)

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spinning and weaving machinery ever escaped
the lynx eye of Mr. Tata. He was always
for giving each a full and fair trial and he
would not swerve from his determination to
introduce it unless his trials conclusively
demonstrated the futility of it. Similarly,
long long before the days of working a factory
at night with electric lights Mr. Tata had ex-
perimented with them at the " Empress " mills.
It owes its intimate popularity to Mr. Tata who
introduced it at a time when it was almost
unknown in India. So far as working by that
light he proved it to the industrial world
of India that it was practicable. But its
remunerative success was deemed doubtful
at the time, and the experiment therefore had
to be given up. It is still considered that
working a mill by electric light at night is
a costly experiment with no corresponding
profit or advantage, though they in Japan
work with it most successfully.
Fully convinced of the practicability of spin-
ning finer counts with long stapled cotton, Mr.
Tata devoted a great deal of his attention to the
improvement in the method of cultivation
of the varieties of such cotton grown in
different parts of India. Having closely

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