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

This machine is a modification of the ring spinning frame previously described and therefore does not call for detailed treatment at our hands.

From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Wilkinson, Frederick

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

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