Fales, Jane. [from old catalog] · New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons · leaf 73
arm orworn in the belt. This facilitated the work somewhat, asit left both hands free to draw out the fibres and operatethe spindle. Textile Manufacture 55 2. The Introduction of Spinning-Wheels.—With the ap-pearance of the hand-wheels at the last of the Middle Agesthere was greater production.… … (a) Saxony wheel (b) Jersey wheel a standard and connected by a belt. The spindle was at-tached to the small wheel and both were turned by therevolutions of the big wheel. The worker stood. The mo-tion was intermittent; that is, the twisting and drawingwere done together by the turning of the…
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