Spinning
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Encyclopedia article tracing the history of spinning from the primitive hand spindle with whorl and distaff through the bobbing wheel, treadle wheel and Saxony flyer wheel. It then covers the mechanical inventions of the 18th and 19th centuries: Paul's roller drafting, Arkwright's water frame, Hargreaves's jenny, Crompton's mule, and the American dead-spindle and ring frames. A line drawing shows a primitive spindle.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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