spinning-frame

~ -- The treatment of the roving on the spinning-frame by the addition of reagents to the macerating liquid -- otherwise and usually hot water -- continues to be justified by results.

Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

To use a faint comparison, we see a factory in motion without water, wind or steam, its cotton placing itself within the reach of the picker, the cards, the spinning-frame and the loom, and turning out in rolls or cloth.

The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Various

Shiloh slept bolt upright, her little head against the spinning-frame, where all the morning she had chased the bobbins up and down the long aisle.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Spinners are small girls who walk up and down an aisle before a spinning-frame and piece up the threads which are forever breaking.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

The rise of British factory-life and great energy in manufacturing began with the invention of the spinning-frame by Arkwright, the power-loom by

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

What he really liked was machinery, and he spent all his spare time making models of a spinning-frame.

An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

His spinning-frame was a success and although his troubles did not end for a long time, he at length made a great fortune and died Sir Richard Arkwright.

An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

The girl runs four sides at a spinning-frame and has worked two years at night.

Child Labor in the Carolinas: [A]ccount of Investigations Made in the Cotton Mills of North and South Carolina, by Rev. A. E. Seddon, A. H. Ulm and Lewis W. Hine, under the Direction of the Southern Office of the National Child Labor Committee Alexander Jeffrey 1909

Hargreaves devised the spinning-jenny, which banished the spindle and distaff and the old spinning-wheel; in 1769 Arkwright evolved his spinning-frame; and in 1785 Cartwright completed the process by inventing the power loom for weaving.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

United States the difficulty of procuring male labour stimulated the invention of the ring spinning-frame, some sixty years ago, which could be worked by woman's labour.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899