File:History of Inventions USNM 29 Spindle.png
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English: No. 1. Simple form of spindle. A wooden peg on which yarn or thread is wound.
No. 2. Silk winder. Forked bamboo rod spread for holding wound silk filament. China. No. 3. Spindle with whorl. Shaft of hard wood ; whorl of bone ; for winding coarse cedar bark. British Columbia 20,640 No. 4, Central American spindle. Shaft of palm wood ; whorl a hard seed. For spinning cotton yarn : 7,490 No. 5. Peruvian spindle, for fine staple. The thread is looped over the top of the shaft when the spinner walks along 7.942, 17,510 No. 6. Tibetan spindle. Shaft a twig of cherry, with hook atop ; whorl a yak bone. The hook on the spindle shaft enables the spinner to walk about 167,248 No. 7. Tibetan spindle. Shaft a twig with notch and groove on the top ; whorl of clay at the bottom of the shaft. The spinner walks about— 167,247 No. 8. Primitive spinning wheel. Spindle whorls of various materials and forms 155,598, 195,572, 100,642 No. 9. Shaft set in bearings; whorl enlarged for flywheel. The beginning of machine spindles. Finland 10 No. 10. Bobbin winder in which the spindle is driven by a primitive flywheel. China 7,694 No. 11. Model of large spinning wheel for cotton and wool. Simplest form, without speed pulley. No. 12. Spindle of small or Saxon spinning wheel, with different sized pulleys to regulate speed. The Saxon wheel works with treadle. No. 13. Spindle used most generally in cotton-spinning machines in the United States. Gift of George Draper and Sons. |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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