The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 171
ircle of spokes roundthe spinner could drive the spindle at a very high rate of speed.The whorl being so much smaller than the circle of spokes roundwhich the driving band was placed, and the band travelling at thesame speed round both, the whorl must revolve at a much higherspeed than the circle… … Fig. 97.—Primitive Spinning Wheel understood if the construction of the spinning machines is to becomprehended. The simplest way is to express both circumferencesin lengths. Suppose the circumference of the whorl to be 2 in.and the circumference of the spokes to be 36 in.; it follows thatto travel…
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