In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
None but spinners were allowed within the circle. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The influence of all the Lancashire cotton-spinners was aligned against his claims. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
This old dried-up reservoir is occupied by a few ghostly silk-spinners now, and one of them showed me a cross cut high up in one of the pillars. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Realizing the hostility to any improvement on the part of the cotton-spinners, he gave out that he was engaged in building a machine to solve the world-old problem of perpetual motion. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
He traveled much through South Lancashire and Cheshire, and there he came in daily contact with the cotton-spinners. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
But the spinners did not take kindly to this improvement. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The employer of the spinners would require an additional five per cent. 亚当·斯密.国富论.