• 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    become mechanized, made possible by inventions such as the spinning jenny, spinning mule, and water frame around the time of the American Revolution...
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    Netherlands. He was sent to Great Britain at a young age and brought a spinning mule and skilled workers to the European continent. He started textile plants...
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    Mule spinners' cancer or mule-spinners' cancer was a cancer, an epithelioma of the scrotum. It was first reported in 1887 in a cotton mule spinner. In...
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    shade afterwards, but should not be scorched. Mule spinning Mule spinning Ring spinning Ring spinning Cotton Counts: Refers to the thickness of the cotton...
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    was affordable for cottagers.: 59  Later machinery such as spinning frames, spinning mules and power looms were expensive (especially if water-powered)...
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    1779, Samuel Crompton combined elements of the spinning jenny and water frame to create the spinning mule. This produced a stronger thread, and was suitable...
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    of the James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright's spinning frame in 1769 and Samuel Crompton's spinning mule in 1775 enabled British...
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    public. New inventions in the 1770s—such as the spinning jenny, the water frame, and the spinning mule—made the British Midlands into a very profitable...
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  • Mexican state of Chihuahua a series of bobbins holding the roving on a spinning mule an overhead clothes airer a crater on Mars Creels, West Virginia Jargon...
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    use of a water wheel to drive a number of spinning frames. The water wheel provided more power to the spinning frame than human operators, reducing the...
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    century. Crompton, whilst living at Hall i' th' Wood, invented the spinning mule in 1779. Streams draining the surrounding moorland into the River Croal...
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  • spinning jenny, Richard Arkwright's water frame, Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule and other inventions. The power loom increased the output of a worker...
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    (polymers) into a medium where it hardens. Wet spinning (rayon) uses a coagulating medium. In dry spinning (acetate and triacetate), the polymer is contained...
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  • Baer 1878–1955 (shipping business), Finland Samuel Crompton 1753–1827 (spinning mule), Great Britain Caroline Gother 1761–1836 (banking), Sweden Johns Hopkins...
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    Cotton-spinning machinery Cotton gin Cotton mill Cotton picker Cotton recycling Mercerised cotton Organic cotton Spinning jenny Spinning mule Spinning wheel...
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    cotton to 'cotton lap' prior to spinning. He was the first to develop factories housing both mechanised carding and spinning operations. Arkwright's achievement...
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    century, where he designed and built the first spinning mule. About 1779, Crompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable...
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    Cotton mill (category Spinning)
    industrial purposes. Ring spinning technology had successfully replaced the spinning mule, with mills having been converted mules to rings. However, in the...
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    spinning jenny and the waterframe until ultimately culminating in the spinning mule, which could produce strong, fine thread in the quantities needed these...
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    was the spinning side that was short of capacity. Roberts then addressed this, with the construction of a self-acting (automatic) spinning mule. Essentially...
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