Medical Definition of attitude. 1  1: the arrangement of the parts of the body : posture. 2  2a: a mental position with regard to a fact or stateb: a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state. 3  3: an organismic state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus (as an object, concept, or situation)
Spinning mills were introduced to the United States in 1790 by English-born mechinist and businessman Samuel Slater (1768â1835). The twenty-one year old had worked as a textile laborer for more than six years in an English mill, where he learned about the workings of a cotton-spinning machine invented (1783) by Richard Arkwright (1732â92).
1 The New Lanark Spinning Mule The machine that visitors see and hear in the New Lanark Visitor Centre has been installed as a working exhibit. Built in 1891, it was in production in a woollen mill in Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders for almost 100 years. Spinning was originally done by hand, on drop spindles or domestic spinning wheels. The carded or combed out yarn had to be drawn out, twisted and wound on to a spindle.