Brown's Patent Vertical Spinner, 1821
THF126738 / Brown's Patent Vertical Spinner, 1821
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Artifact Overview
This 1821 advertisement for an innovative spinning wheel comes with a testimonial from Samuel Slater, David Wilkinson, and Benjamin Walcott, three prominent pioneers of the American textile industry. Brown's patent vertical spinner, which could spin six yarns simultaneously, was designed to allow home workers to compete with factory production, but it was never widely adopted and never challenged the growth of the factory system.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Print (Visual work)
Date Made
1821
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
00.4.518
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Handwriting
Woodcut (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 13.5 in
Width: 8.5 in
Inscriptions
at top:
Brown's Patent Vertical Spinner.
handwritten across bottom:
NB. Since the publication of the above, the said Samuel Slater subscriber to the same has obtained the Agency for disposing of rights in all the Counties in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts except the County of Worcester, and also the States of New Hampshire and Maine.
on back in red ink:
Browns Patent Vertical Spinner.
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Spinning frames spin cotton fiber into yarn and then wind it onto a bobbin. This throstle spinning frame could simultaneously spin 64 strands of yarn. (Throstle -- an old name for a song thrush -- refers to the bird-like sounds the machine made.) Machines like this helped produce the large quantities of yarn that growing industrial weaving operations needed in the early and mid-1800s.