Spinning
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Encyclopedia article on spinning, tracing the technology from the spindle and distaff and the Saxony wheel through the spinning jenny, Arkwright's water frame and Crompton's mule. It then walks through the modern cotton mill sequence of lapping, carding, drawing, roving and spinning, with sectional diagrams of the lapper, card, drawing frame, roving frame, spinning frame and mule. It briefly notes how wool, worsted and other fibres are spun, and ends with a bibliography of textile texts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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