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

At this moment Daniel Ironsyde came into the works, and while John Best hastened to him, Raymond pursued his amusement and studied the wall by the spinning frame where Sabina Dinnett worked.

From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden

When two or three threads are united by twisting, the operation can be conducted in a twisting frame which differs little from a ordinary spinning frame, and hence need not be described.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.

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

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.