Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by material processed]
7. textile working equipment
8. [textile fabricating tools and equipment]

Anotations

Scope note:

Machines equipped with many spindles designed to simultaneously draw out, twist, and wind (or spin) multiple spindles of fibers to form yarn. A modification of the spinning jenny, these machines were equipped with spindles mounted on an enlarged moving portion of the machine, rather than on a stationary frame. The modern spinning machine is often considered to be a power-driven instantiation of these manually-operated devices. The first reference to this device is thought to be in approximately 1802, when James Scholfield installed the spinning machine in his North Andover textile mill.