Spinning Mule
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Spinning Mule

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The spinning mule was a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere during the nineteenth and early twenty century. Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer. The carriage carried up to 1320 spindles and could be 150 feet (46 m) long, and would move forward and back a distance of 5 feet (1.5 m) four times a minute. It was invented between 1775 1779 by Samuel Crompton. The self acting (automatic) mule was patented by Richard Roberts in 1825. At its peak there were 50,000,000 mule spin...