Engraved plate of spinning wheel submitted to the Society of Arts by Robert Burt., shoemaker.

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Engraved plate of spinning wheel submitted to the Society of Arts by Robert Burt., shoemaker. He was awarded a bounty of fifteen guineas for his invention of winding the thread while spinning.

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