spinning frame

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Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

In regard to cloth manufacture, most yarns are utilized in the form they leave the spinning frame, that is, as single yarns.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.

Now the spinning frame in the mill has replaced both.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by Dooley, William H. (William Henry)

Although he was not a craftsman of any sort, he patented in 1769 a spinning frame worked by water power and erected the first practical cotton mill factory.

From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by Reilly, S. A.

And last, though not least in its direct and indirect effects on slavery, was the cotton gin of Eli Whitney, which formed the other half—the other hand, so to speak—of the spinning frame.

From Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 by Grimké, Archibald Henry