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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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