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  2. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    The spinning wheel spread from the Middle-East to Europe by the 13th century, with the earliest European illustration dated to around 1280. In France, the spindle and distaff were not displaced until the mid 18th century. [15] [16] The spinning wheel replaced the earlier method of hand spinning with a spindle. The first stage in mechanizing the ...

  3. Hand spinning - Wikipedia

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    Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction of the spinning wheel in the 13th century, the output of individual spinners increased dramatically.

  4. William Radcliffe - Wikipedia

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    His father taught him about carding and spinning. In 1785, he purchased several spinning machines that had been developed by James Hargreaves . Hargreaves' machine, called the spinning jenny , was the first wholly successful improvement on the traditional spinning wheel .

  5. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1740s all spinning was done by hand using a spinning wheel. The state of the art spinning wheel in England was known as the Jersey wheel however an alternative wheel, the Saxony wheel was a double band treadle spinning wheel where the spindle rotated faster than the traveller in a ratio of 8:6, drawing on both was done by the spinners ...

  6. Hands (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Irish Spinning Wheel Making: Ben Kiely 18: 1988 Shannon One Design: Ben Kiely 19: 1980 Carley's Bridge Potteries: Ray McAnally 20: 1987: Belleek Potteries: Benedict Kiely 21: 1983 Clay Pipe Works: Diarmuid Ó Muirithe 22: 1980: A Dublin Silversmith: Éamonn Mac Thomáis 23: 1989: Powers of the Metal: Diarmuid Ó Muirithe 24: 1981 Stone: Éamonn ...

  7. List of programs broadcast by the History Channel - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History Channel/H2/Military History Channel in the United States.

  8. Richard Arkwright - Wikipedia

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    Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame after it was adapted to use water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to 'cotton lap' prior to spinning.

  9. Spinning frame - Wikipedia

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    In 1760 England, yarn production from wool, flax and cotton was still a cottage industry in which fibres were carded and spun by hand using a spinning wheel.As the textile industry expanded its markets and adopted faster machines, yarn supplies became scarce especially due to innovations such as the doubling of the loom speed after the invention of the flying shuttle.