Spinning
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A short encyclopedia entry defining spinning as two distinct manufacturing operations: spinning of animal and vegetable fibres into thread, and spinning of soft metals. It describes fibre spinning as forming a continuous uniform thread from aligned fibres by twisting. It contrasts the spindle, distaff and spinning-wheel, which produce a single thread, with cotton spinning machinery that can produce nearly two thousand threads at once. It refers readers to other entries on cotton, linen, silk, and woollen and worsted manufacture.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1867
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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