Spinning jenny
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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 early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1
Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany
Spinning jenny at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Hermann Sondermann Familie mit Frau am Spinnrad detail
Spinning mule
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The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres like wool. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere. Mules w
Spinning jenny
…by the need to card by hand. It continued in common use in the cotton and fustian industry until about 1810. The spinning jenny was superseded by the spinning mule. The jenny was adapted for the process of slubbing, being the basis of the Slubbing Billy. The most common story told about the invention of the device…
The only surviving example of a spinning mule built by the inventor Samuel Crompton
The outward traverse
The inward traverse
Notice the faller wire gear