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" ... those machines, extend the rove, and reduce it to a thread of the required fineness. The twist is given to this thread by flyers, driven by bands, which receive their motion from a horizontal fly wheel, or from a longitudinal cylinder. The yarn produced... "
The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Lanark - Page 143
1845
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...

1824 - 884 pages
...point, been altered or improved. The yarn produced by this mode of spinning is called Water Twist, from the circumstance of the machinery from which it is obtained, having, for a The Tliroslong time after its invention, been generally put in Cotton Ma. motion by water. nufacture....
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 3

1825 - 590 pages
...spinning is called water twist, from the circumstance of the machinery from which it is maintained having, for a long time after its invention, been...only improvement, or even alteration, yet made on Mr. Arkwright's spinning frame, is to be found in the machine called the throstle, introduced some...
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The Naturalist, Volume 1

1831 - 420 pages
...wheel, or from a longitudinal cylinder. The yam produced by this mode of spinning is called water twist, from the circumstance of the machinery, from which it is obtained, having been, at first, generally put into motion by water. In 1775, the mule-jenny or mule was invented by...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge

1836 - 496 pages
...or from a longitudinal cylinder. The yarn produced by this mode of spinning is called water twist, from the circumstance of the machinery, from which it is obtained, having been, at first, generally put into motion by water. In 1775, the mule-jenny or mule was invented by...
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The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: On the rise and progress of literature ...

Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 510 pages
...or from a longitudinal cylinder. The yarn produced by this mode of spinning is called water ttvist, from the circumstance of the machinery, from which it is obtained, having been, at first, generally put in motion by water. In 1775, the mule jenny or mule was invented by Samuel...
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The Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow: Comprising an Account of Its ...

James Cleland - 1840 - 112 pages
...built another mill at Cromford in Derbyshire, in 1775, to which motion was given by water. Water twist received its name from the circumstance of the machinery from which it was obtained, having for a long time after its erection, been generally put in motion by water. During...
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Lives of Individuals who Raised Themselves from Poverty to Eminence Or Fortune

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1841 - 456 pages
...accomplishment of this object. " The yarn produced by this mode of spinning is called Water Twist, from the circumstance of the machinery from which...The only improvement, or even alteration, yet made upon Mr. Arkwright's first contrivance, the spinningframe, is to be found in the machine called the...
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