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Description: Spinning water frame, made by Richard Arkwright, Cromford, c.1775, and used at the Arkwright Mills at Matlock Bath. This is a four spindled example of Richard Arkwright's water frame, possibly the earliest surviving production example of the machine that triggered a transformation in cotton spinning. The water frame made the mass production of cotton yarn possible for the first time. Driven by a water wheel, its moving rollers thinned out the cotton, then its rotating spindles twisted it into yarn.
Title: Awkright water frame c1775
Credit: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8411373/arkwrights-water-frame-water-frame
Author: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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