Wool Wheel or Great Wheel; Virginia or Kentucky; after 1803
notes: label: Description
content: Wool wheel, or great wheel-- equipped with Amos Miner's accelerating wheel head, which he patented in 1803. Used by Mrs. K.J. Elizabeth Slayton. This wheel was found at a home in Virginia. The wheel head consists of an upright post which supports the spindle in a horizontal position; a wharve or pulley fastened to the spindle near the center; a small wheel provided with a pulley or groove; a cord which connects the large wheel with the small grooved wheel; and a cord which connected the small grooved wheel with the wharve or pulley on the spindle. By revolving the great wheel by hand the small wheel turned very rapidly, communicating motion to the spindle through the wharve or pulley, consequently the spindle turned as long as the great wheel revolved. {Ref: Woolman's and McGowan's "Textiles]
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Virginia
label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Virginia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Charles R.. Weed
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04227
label: accession number
content: 65709
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spinning wheel, wool