Hand spinning on these types of wheels, both hands are free (since the wheel is turned with a treadle, rather than by hand), so the spinner can use one hand to draft the fibres and the other to wet them. Modern powered spinning, originally done by water or steam power but now done by electricity, is vastly faster than hand-spinning. The spinning jenny, a multi-spool spinning wheel invented c. 1764 by James Hargreaves, dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn of high consistency, with a single worker able to work eight or more spools at once. At roughly the
Spinning pinwheel this information, the developer can rewrite code to avoid the cursor being activated. Apple's guidelines suggest that developers try to avoid invoking the spinning wait cursor, and suggest other user interface indicators, such as an asynchronous progress indicator. The spinning wait cursor is commonly referred to as the (Spinning) "x" (of Death/Doom). The most common words or phrases "x" can be replaced with include: Spinning pinwheel The spinning pinwheel is a variation of the mouse pointer arrow, used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. Officially, the "macOS Human Interface Guidelines" refers to it as the spinning