The silk filaments are then wound on a reel.

The four wheels were underneath the panels and the axles of the wheels were in the base and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

And under the borders were four wheels and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half a cubit.

before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.

A simple machine, such as a lever, pulley, or gear train, is ideal if the power input is equal to the power output of the device, which means there are no losses.