Spinning
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Encyclopedia article on spinning from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, tracing the art from ancient Egypt and the distaff and spindle through the spinning wheel to the English industrial inventions of Paul, Arkwright, Hargreaves and Crompton. It also describes the spinning of flax, hemp and silk by machine. Illustrations show Egyptian tomb scenes and spindles, Crompton's mule, a hemp spinning machine and silk-twisting machinery.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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