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Copperplate engraving of a spinning jenny textile machine, showing a large hand wheel, multiple spindles, and wooden frame used for woolen yarn production. Spinning wheel Diagram titled Spinning jenny showing an operator using a hand wheel to rotate a cord-driven roller, drawing and twisting fibers from multiple clamped rovings onto tilted spindles; numbered callouts trace the process from roving to thread. Drawing of a woman operating a large spinning jenny with multiple spools in a room with two windows, a basket of raw material at her feet. Spinning mule
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Vintage engraving from 1878 of the spinning room in Shadwell Rope Works. View of the factory floor. Industrial revolution
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Spinning jenny
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Spinning wheel
A woman spinning yarn at a spinning wheel.
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Spinning jenny diagram showing how fiber is spun into thread
An annotated diagram showing how an operator uses a hand wheel, rollers, and spindles...
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Spinning jenny
A woman working at a spinning jenny, a multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool...
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Spinning mule
A belt-driven version of Samuel Crompton's spinning mule inside an iron-framed spinning...
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