Spinning

Examples

• V ARKWRIGHT AND THE SPINNING-JENNY 1732-1792 All the great English inventors have sprung from families of small means, and have had to work for their living. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Although the cotton is now a white, soft, clean, downy sheet, still the fibres cross each other in every direction, and they require to be straightened and laid parallel before the spinning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he had a way of spinning himself about that was full of appearance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The spinning machine is simply an improved form of Crompton's mule, already described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A modern step of importance in spinning was the _ring frame_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Later he took English patents on a machine for spinning flax, and on a new device for twisting hemp rope. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The ancient and isolated races of Mexico had also learned the art of spinning and weaving. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It covered carding, drawing, and roving machines for use in preparing silk, cotton, flax, and wool for spinning. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hargreaves’ improvement on the old-fashioned spinning-wheel dates from 1767, though he himself, it is said, had first used such a machine in 1764. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Hargreaves fled to Nottingham, where works were soon started with his spinning jennys. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The man who had been a vendor of wigs had now revolutionized the whole spinning world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A great improvement on the spinning frame of the 18th century is the ring frame invented by Jenks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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