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  2. David C. Roy - Wikipedia

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    Many include the moving moiré pattern from co-axial spoked wheels rotating in opposite directions. [15] Roy focuses not only on the motion but also the sound. He has developed escapements that are either nearly silent or that produce the soft clicking of wood on wood. [16] A few incorporate wind chime tubes. [6]

  3. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...

  4. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1740s all spinning was done by hand using a spinning wheel. The state of the art spinning wheel in England was known as the Jersey wheel however an alternative wheel, the Saxony wheel was a double band treadle spinning wheel where the spindle rotated faster than the traveller in a ratio of 8:6, drawing on both was done by the spinners ...

  5. Wheelwright - Wikipedia

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    A wheelwright's shop Worldwide Wheelwright Phill Gregson fitting iron "strakes" to a traditional wooden wheel. A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels. The word is the combination of "wheel" and the word "wright" (which comes from the Old English word "wryhta", meaning a worker or shaper of wood) as in shipwright and ...

  6. Hand spinning - Wikipedia

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    Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction of the spinning wheel in the 13th century, the output of individual spinners increased dramatically.

  7. Spinner's weasel - Wikipedia

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    Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right) Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which resembles a clock) and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The ...

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    Arlington Police said a man was killed and another woman was severely injured after an SUV crashed into them early Saturday morning. According to Arlington Police, around 1:00 a.m. on Saturday in ...

  9. Ashford railway works - Wikipedia

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    Ashford railway works was a major locomotive and wagon construction and repair workshop in Ashford, Kent in England. Constructed by the South Eastern Railway in 1847, it became a major centre for railway works in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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