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Cotton Spinning Machinery

 
Throstle Spinning Frame

Engraving of throstle spinning machinery published in 1813 and appearing in Abraham Rees. The Cyclopedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Vol. 2. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1820.

 

Spindle Flyers   Common Spindle

Illustrations of spindle technology from William F. Draper. The Development of Spindles: A Paper by Gen. William F. Draper, Read at a Meeting of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, April 29, 1891. [N.p., 1891].

 

Mcculey

Detail from Ring Throstle, McCulley's Patent Livespindle, by the Lowell Machine Shop, lithograph by Tappan and Bradford, ca. 1850.

 

Mcculley Ring Throstle

Ring Throstle, McCulley's Patent Livespindle, by the Lowell Machine Shop, lithograph by Tappan and Bradford, ca. 1850.

 

Mule Spinning

Early illustration of mule spinning machinery, so called because it was a hybrid of Hargreaves' spinning jenny and Arkwright's flyer frame.

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