Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom. The main drivers of the Industrial Revol
Early industrialized region at Barmen in the Wupper Valley, 1870 - painting by August von Wille
The only surviving example of a Spinning Mule built by the inventor Samuel Crompton
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Arkwright's Cromford Mill
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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
The outward traverse
The inward traverse
Notice the faller wire gear