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

And last, though not least in its direct and indirect effects on slavery, was the cotton gin of Eli Whitney, which formed the other half—the other hand, so to speak—of the spinning frame.

From Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

From this machine the roving is wound on a bobbin ready for the spinning frame.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz

He taught himself crafts necessary to invent and patent in 1769 a spinning frame worked by a water wheel, which he called a "water frame".

From Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. by Reilly, S. A.

A great improvement on the spinning frame of the 18th century is the ring frame invented by Jenks.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry