Spinning Wheel
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A one-page dictionary entry on the spinning wheel from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It describes how the wheel works for spinning wool rolls, notes its likely origin in Hindustan and its arrival in Europe by the sixteenth century, and explains the drawing and twisting action. It also describes an improved treadle-driven double-spindle wheel with flyers. Illustrated with engravings, including one taken from a fourteenth-century manuscript.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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