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    machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, which displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution. The basic spinning of yarn involves...
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  • "Spinning Wheel" is a song from 1968 by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, written by Canadian lead vocalist David Clayton-Thomas and appearing on their eponymous...
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    indication of activity. Often, the spinning wheel is displayed at the position of the cursor, then also called "spinning cursor" or "rotating cursor". This...
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  • A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn. Spinning wheel may also refer to: "Spinning Wheel" (song), a song by the band Blood, Sweat &...
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  • "Spinning the Wheel" is a song by English singer-songwriter George Michael. The song was co-written and co-produced by Michael and Jon Douglas. It was...
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    tools, the spindle and distaff. It was only with the invention of the spinning wheel in the Islamic world circa 1030, and its subsequent introduction to...
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    the spinning wait cursor, but it is also known by other names. These include, but are not limited to the spinning beach ball, the spinning wheel of death...
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  • starting in the 500s AD the spinning wheel became the predominant spinning tool across Asia and Europe. The spinning jenny and spinning mule, invented in the...
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    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the...
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    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...
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    significant effort to turn. True potter's wheels, which are freely-spinning and have a wheel and axle mechanism, were developed in Mesopotamia (Iraq) by 4200–4000 BCE...
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  • by spinning wheel) "Like Ooh-Ahh" (picked by spinning wheel) April 16 (Day 2) "TT" (picked by spinning wheel) "Wallflower" (picked by spinning wheel) "Basics"...
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    "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of...
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    Roulette (redirect from Roulette wheel)
    spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel...
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  • woman; for 3 years he slaves (while wearing woman's dress) spinning wool for her on a spinning wheel. Terrace, Vincent (2003). Radio Program Openings and Closings...
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    Indian flag, proposing a flag with the charkha or spinning wheel at the centre. The idea of the spinning wheel was put forth by Lala Hansraj, and Gandhi commissioned...
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  • modifications were ever made. All spinning in China reverted to far less efficient hand-spinning, and the automatic spinning wheel was forgotten. Elvin proposes...
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  • before Vista and many other systems, spinning ring in Windows Vista and later, watch in classic Mac OS, or spinning pinwheel in macOS) is displayed when...
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  • It is often described to be a spinning song, that is, a song that would be sung while spinning at the spinning wheel. It is frequently described as being...
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    The Spin Wheel is a British drill manoeuvre. The manoeuvre is not written down, but is instead passed down from one generation of musicians to the next...
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    ABS road wheel speed sensors, and applies brakes to one spinning wheel, thus transferring torque via open differential to the opposite wheel which has...
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  • Spin the Wheel may refer to: Spin the Wheel (game show), 2019 American game show Spin the Wheel (album), 2004 album by Bellefire Spin the Wheel (Bellefire...
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  • The Golden Spinning Wheel (Czech: Zlatý kolovrat), Op. 109, B. 197, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Antonín Dvořák, composed from January to April...
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  • the free dictionary. Charkha may refer to: Charkha (spinning wheel), a type of Indian spinning wheel referenced in the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi "The...
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  • The Wheel Spins (a.k.a. The Lady Vanishes) is a 1936 mystery novel by British writer Ethel Lina White. Iris Carr, a young English society woman, is staying...
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    an artificial gravity in space in 1903. Herman Potočnik introduced a spinning wheel station with a 30-meter diameter in his Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums...
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  • "Spin That Wheel" is a song by Hi Tek 3 in collaboration with Belgian group Technotronic members Ya Kid K and Jo Bogaert. It was released under the name...
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  • place, I wish I was there." Side one "Spinning Wheel Blues" (Francis Rossi, Bob Young) – 3:21 (listed as "Spinning Wheel" on the original LP) "Daughter" (Alan...
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    The spinning frame is an Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way. It was developed...
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    of the James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright's spinning frame in 1769 and Samuel Crompton's spinning mule in 1775 enabled British...
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