spinning mule

It was ideas from these two system that inspired the spinning mule.

The spinning mule (1779) allowed a large number of threads to be spun by a single machine using water power.

The mule-jenny later became known as the spinning mule.

For reasons linked to the physical strength needed to operate them at the beginning, spinning mules were operated by men.

In November 1958 the company sold a number of spinning mules as scrap for just over £3,000.

In 1793 John Kennedy directly connected a spinning mule to a steam engine.

Roberts then addressed this, with the construction of a self-acting (automatic) spinning mule.

Kennedy manufactured and sold spinning mules until 1801.

Samuel Crompton was later to combine the two to form the spinning mule.

The task he had set himself was to design a self-actor, a self-acting or automatic spinning mule.

Richard Roberts, Inventor famous for the automation of the spinning mule.

When a mill was upgraded from spinning mules to ring frames, the floor had to be strengthened.

The spinning mule spins textile fibres into yarn by an intermittent process.

Spinning mule invented to spin multiple strands of yarn.

The spinning jenny was superseded by the spinning mule.

The power was used to card the raw cotton, and then to drive the spinning mules and ring frames.

The Spinning Mule, a spinning engine from the 18th century.

The spinning mule became self-acting (automatic) in 1830s.

Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, lived there for part of his life.

It is named after Samuel Crompton, inventor of the "spinning mule".

The mill had 52 pairs of spinning mules with a total of 137,312 spindles, and employed approximately 300 people.

In 1824 he invented his most famous machine, the self-acting spinning mule, and patented it in March 1825.

The Lewis Hine photograph shows that mill had spinning mules with a short travel.

This was 20 bays long and built to house eight pairs of spinning mules on the third and fourth storey.

Ring spinning technology had successfully replaced the spinning mule, with mills having been converted mules to rings.