Water frame
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The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.
Model of a water frame in the Museum for Early Industrialization in Wuppertal.
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
Water frame
…unlike the spinning jenny, the water frame could spin only one thread at a time until 1779, when Samuel Crompton combined the two inventions into his spinning mule, which was more effective. The water frame was originally powered by horses at a factory built by Arkwright and partners in Nottingham. In 1770, Arkwright…
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