1 gen 1668 anni - hand gin

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A hand windlass. 1668 <i>with the use and liberty of the horse-gin and hand-gin</i>, Seacroft (YRS50/115). This was a primitive way of drawing coal and of moving miners up and down the shaft but even when more efficient methods were devised it did not entirely disappear: 1836 <i>we have opened two small pits, each wrought by a hand windlass</i>, Grange Moor (BEA/C2/B3/169).

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