The spinning mule is widely believed to have gotten its name because it’s a hybrid of the jenny and the water frame, much like a mule is a hybrid of a horse and a donkey.

Like the spinning jenny, it had multiple spindles for making threads and, like the water frame, it was powered by water rather by human strength. The spinning mules were huge – over forty metres ...

Arkwright's Water Frame spinning machine Contributed by Helmshore Mill Textile Museum Richard Arkwright's famous spinning machine which he patented in 1769.

The spinning jenny being used in a factory during the industrial revolution The spinning jenny Highs also devised the water frame textile machine.

In 1771, Richard Arkwright in Derbyshire, powered his spinning frame with a water wheel, and then in 1775, he took out a patent on a “carding engine,” which mechanized the pre-processing for ...

THE teenage boy was working at his Spinning Jenny. But he soon grew frustrated at its limitations.

Mules were originally invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, and are so called because they are a hybrid between Arkwright’s water frame and James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny in the same way that ...