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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1789 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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iri order, if it be propcily un-while it pjomises to give employnienr desstotid at first.—to the poor, and support to the friend- Considerably less strength is re- less orphan, may also enable children quired here thrsn at the commonofeitl.er sex to provide for (heir in-- ssinning-vvhsei ; and the origi-fiirn or aged parents. nal expe.ice of it in England dv es The horizontal spjnnir.g-wheel,l:.id not exceed five pounds sterling :—itoown in the plate ar.nex<d, was in- seldom needs repa r. Several of these vented about t..enty years ago bythe Inte mr. Bernard Barton of Car-lisle in Englnr;d, a very irgeni^uslineu manufacturer. At this ntachinetwelve little girJs may spin at once. Itif- ?o easiiy mansged, x\.?A a child,v/llh th*j slghtest touch, c;.r. either wheels have for upwards of fifteenye^-TS been employed hi various partsoi En<4land, nmc!) to tlie honour ofthose by whoce beneficence tljey weieerected, and to the benefit of th u-sands of pucr children in that kin::-doni.
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2 1-2 2 1-2 2 1-3 2 1-2 J Discription cf the Horizontal Spinning-lVhed. 5_r DESCRIPTION OE THE PLATE. Ftg. I. ADEFG The Irame, which has Scantling. In. lit.D four legs - - - . . 41-4 by 4 1-4 E a circular rail, framed in the legs, near the tcp of ? which are pi ccd the bobbins - - 5 5 11-4 F two cross rails framed on the heads of thele^-sG two rails, framed into the lower parr oi the leirs, )and which are fixed to the floor, to steady ihe machine. \M^ twelve braces framed from the bottom of the column into the spokes 6-8 5 -8 Fig. 2.BHIKM The wheel (which ,s five feet feven inches diameter)hasH a column or axis \_^z°fig. i.) into which are frame!I twelve spokes -----. 13-8 7-8 K a ciicular rim, or fel=y which turns the bolVcins 3 1-2 C the bobbins more particularly delijieated \c\fig, -x and 4.P holes in the circular rail &c. to receive the cis^nffs.Q^the handle,by whiciithe wheel is rurn-d, and, whichis suspended frim the ceiling, or upptr part cf theroom, by the cords q. q.N. B

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