Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . he winding such wheels it was |)ossible to have twospindles and jiirns a little apart (the two-liauiled wheel, lig. 2), with distall or rockbetween thejii, and on these the s])insterproduced thread with each hainl. Theintroiluclion of mechanical spinning to-wards the end of the ISlh century gave adeath-blow to this great domestic indus-try, but in the Northern and WesternHighlands of Scotland a good deal ofworsted yarn still continues to be madefor local manufactures on series of inventions which over-thr
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . he winding such wheels it was |)ossible to have twospindles and jiirns a little apart (the two-liauiled wheel, lig. 2), with distall or rockbetween thejii, and on these the s])insterproduced thread with each hainl. Theintroiluclion of mechanical spinning to-wards the end of the ISlh century gave adeath-blow to this great domestic indus-try, but in the Northern and WesternHighlands of Scotland a good deal ofworsted yarn still continues to be madefor local manufactures on series of inventions which over-threw hand-spinning may be .said to havebeen begun by Lewis Paul in ]7;i8, whenlie i>ateiileil the important principle ofdrawing .mt junl attenuating a sliver orloose cod oMibie by jiius.^ing it between successivepairs of rollei^ revofviiig at rates I his principle of drawing ,mt fibres byaccelerated motion was developed in tli,; spinnin.;.frame or throstle invented by Arkwright in 1707and it forms a fundamental feature of nil modern. Fig. 2.—Two-handedISpiuniiig-wlieel.
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