Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Smithsonian's first label for Slater's Spinning Frame was written by textiles curator Frederick L. Lewton in 1912 ...

This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the ...

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Housed within what was originally the wet spinning floor, the museum tells the story of Mossley Mill and the people who worked there from the 1800s through to the mill closure in 1996. The history is ...

Forever Spinning tops "which is reminiscent of the items that have been sculpted with high precision from solid metal of one metal and whose smooth curve has appeared in the movie" Inception ". What ...

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