Thread Machinery
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A short 1872 article tracing the history of thread making from prehistoric hand spinning with distaff and spindle through the spinning wheel to machine spinning. It covers Hargreaves's spinning jenny, Arkwright's roller spinning and Crompton's mule, then turns to thread spinning in the United States, including the first cotton sewing thread at Pawtucket in 1794. It ends with a description of Fales, Jenks & Sons of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, makers of thread machinery.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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