The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills...
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The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the...
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in the 500s AD the spinning wheel became the predominant spinning tool across Asia and Europe. The spinning jenny and spinning mule, invented in the late...
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and wrapped in one action. The spinning mule became self-acting (automatic) in 1830s. The mule was the most common spinning machine from 1790 until about...
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Samuel Crompton (section Spinning mule)
and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright, he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised...
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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution (section A representative early spinning mill 1771)
Innovations in carding and spinning enabled by advances in cast iron technology resulted in the creation of larger spinning mules and water frames. The machinery...
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James Hargreaves (section Spinning jenny)
credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764. He was one of three men responsible for the mechanisation of spinning: Richard Arkwright patented...
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Mule (shoe), a type of shoe or slipper without a back Mule (smuggling), a smuggler of contraband Spinning mule or Crompton's mule, a textile spinning...
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UK and the United States, to clean and recoup the area underneath a spinning mule. The cotton wastage that gathered on the floor was seen as too valuable...
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Arkwright's water frame. Ring spinning is a continuous process, unlike mule spinning which uses an intermittent action. In ring spinning, the roving is first attenuated...
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