Spinning
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Encyclopedia article on spinning from Rees's Cyclopedia, tracing the development of spinning methods and machinery. It covers the spindle and distaff, the one-thread wheel, the flax wheel with flyer and bobbin, and Antis's improvement for distributing thread on the bobbin. It then describes the spinning jenny, billy, Arkwright's water frame and Crompton's mule, and the adaptation of rollers to flax, long wool and worsted. It also covers the Clarke and Bugby 1806 patent for hemp and flax, spinning by shellfish and spiders, and the rope-maker's spinning wheel.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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