spinning frame
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Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although he was not a craftsman of any sort, he patented in 1769 a spinning frame worked by water power and erected the first practical cotton mill factory.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by Reilly, S. A.
They knew how to use the spindles and were delighted to find the Russian spinning frame.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Addams, Jane
"I've seen a very good-looking young man by the name of Raymond Ironsyde wasting a deuce of a lot of his time by your spinning frame; and wasting your time, too."
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
The final machine used in the conversion of rove to the size of yarn required is termed the spinning frame.
From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.
