The wooden spinning wheel is a copy of an C18th wheel. This would have been used to spin woollen yarn. The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the ...

(Craig Hudson/Reuters) In Giotto’s frescoes for the Arena Chapel in Padua -- completed around 1305 and perhaps the first true masterpiece ... atop a giant spinning wheel. I can think of no ...

To make their deadline, the Roebling crew designed a "split tram," a second spinning wheel which met the first wheel in the middle of the bridge. This development sped progress. Eventually ...

First it was craps, now it's roulette. Learn the basics behind the spinning of the roulette wheel. What's your favorite number?