1Thomas Jefferson’s Specifications for the Rotunda Planetarium, 1824?, 31 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
...flexible white oak like the ream of a cotton spinning wheel; and fixed in it’s curvature, in a...
2Thomas Jefferson to James Clarke, 1 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
...light, the wheels to be like cotton spinning wheels & all other parts proportionably light....
3To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 February 1819 to 26 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
...ear something like the effect of a Cotton spinning wheel, which is not dull enough to set...