Editing Spinning wheel (section)

==Importance==
[[File:La dernière Fileuse de mon village, Fouace.jpg|thumb|right|180px|"The last spinner in my village", 1881. Hand spinning declined with the advent of more automated methods.]]

The spinning wheel increased the productivity of thread making by a factor of greater than 10.  Medieval historian [[Lynn Townsend White Jr.]] credited the spinning wheel with increasing the supply of rags, which led to cheap [[paper]], which in turn was a factor in the development of [[printing]].<ref>{{Cite journal
 | last1 = Marchetti
 | first1 = Cesare
 | title =A Postmortem Technology Assessment of the Spinning Wheel: The Last 1000 Years|journal=Technological Forecasting and Social Change|volume=13|pages=91-93
 | year = 1978
 | url = http://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/scan/MARCHETTI-079.pdf
 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428082234/http://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/scan/MARCHETTI-079.pdf|archivedate=28 April 2021
 }}</ref>

It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the [[Industrial Revolution]]. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the [[spinning jenny]] and [[spinning frame]], which displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution.

The spinning wheel was a precursor to the [[spinning jenny]], which was widely used during the Industrial Revolution. The spinning jenny was essentially an adaptation of the spinning wheel.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Žmolek |first1=Michael Andrew |title=Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England |date=2013 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004251793 |page=328 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RKaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA328 |quote=The spinning jenny was basically an adaptation of its precursor the spinning wheel}}</ref>