. A dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. in-ners left hand. Fig. 347 is a diagramof Arkwrights oriijinalwater - frame spinningmachine, called after-wards the water - twist COTTON MANUFACTURE. 373 frame. The rovings mounted upon bob-bins in the creel a a, have their ends ledthrough between the three sets of twinrollers below b b, thence down throughthe eyelet hooks upon the end of the fliersof the spindles c, and finally attached totheir bobbins. The spindles being drivenby the band d d upon their lower part, con-tinuously
. A dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. in-ners left hand. Fig. 347 is a diagramof Arkwrights oriijinalwater - frame spinningmachine, called after-wards the water - twist COTTON MANUFACTURE. 373 frame. The rovings mounted upon bob-bins in the creel a a, have their ends ledthrough between the three sets of twinrollers below b b, thence down throughthe eyelet hooks upon the end of the fliersof the spindles c, and finally attached totheir bobbins. The spindles being drivenby the band d d upon their lower part, con-tinuously twist and wind the finished yarnupon the bobbins; constituting the firstunremitting automatic machine for spinningwhich the world ever saw. Contrast with the above admirable sys-tem, the primitive cotton wheel of India, asrepresented in the annexed figure 348. Bythe aid of mechanical fingers, one English-man at his mule can turn off daily moreyarn and of far finer quality than 200 ofthe most diligent spinsters of 349 is a transverse section of the mule, in which its principal parts are
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