The two engines are named " Victoria " and " Alexandra ", multiple ropes around the flywheel drove the line shafts on each floor of the mill which in turn drove the ring spinning frames.
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At the end of WW II there was no longer a need for coarse cotton fabric used for military equipment webbing and the like and so the cotton ring spinning mills were soon out of business.
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After several unsuccessful on-air attempts to break his record, during the show originally broadcast on February 9, 2008, O'Brien broke his record for endurance ring spinning, setting a time of 51 seconds by coating his wedding ring with Vaseline and spinning it on a Teflon surface.
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Although Gates agreed to scale back his outside speaking engagements to one a month when he moved from Duke University to Cambridge, the legendary P . T . Barnum of academia has not only managed to keep several balls in the air at once, he's got a few rings spinning up there too.
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Wildenschwert was a German-speaking town in Austro-Hungary until it was allocated to Czechoslovakia in 1918 at the conclusion of the World War I . �st?nad Orlic?as it was now called remained an important textile town, and in the 1960s the V�zkumn?�stav bavln�Ysk?( Cotton Researching Institute ) developed the Open end spinning technique that provided a faster alternative to ring spinning.
