Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . es invented the spinning jenny, which v/aspractically the application of the spinning-wheel principle to a number ofspindles, together with a reciprocating motion of the spindles to and f-omthe point where the material is delivered, as in the mules of the presentday. The spinning, as in the nnde of today, was intermittent, rather thancontinuous. (See Plate 5.) In 1760, Richard Arkwright in
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . es invented the spinning jenny, which v/aspractically the application of the spinning-wheel principle to a number ofspindles, together with a reciprocating motion of the spindles to and f-omthe point where the material is delivered, as in the mules of the presentday. The spinning, as in the nnde of today, was intermittent, rather thancontinuous. (See Plate 5.) In 1760, Richard Arkwright invented the first continuous power spin-ning machine, which was intended, as stated in his specification, to re-ceive its motion from a horse. This was a flyer structure, on thegeneral principle which continued in use for nearly a hundred years, Itis in use to-day to a limited and constantly diminishing extent. These machines were received with great disfavor by the people,who thought they saw their occupation gone if one spinner could do thework of a large number; and at one time preconcerted mobs broke up allthe spinning machines in Leicester having more than twenty spindles each. PLATE V—Spinning. 1. Early Method. 2. From 14th Century M. S. 3. Roman Spinning. 4. Then and Now. 5. Slaters First Spinning Frame. (Nowm the National Museum, Washington,D. C). 6. Spindle. 7. hiand Mule Spinning. 8. Power Mule Spinning. 9. Ring Spinning. JAMES H LAME CO- OF THE UNITED STATES 99 No more absorb illustration could be given of the foolishness of the op-position of labor organizations to labor-saving improvements. The demanilfor labor has probably been as much increased by the invention of thespinning jenny as the cost of cloth has been diminished by it. The Arkwright machine was called the water frame, from the factthat, although the first ones were driven by horse-power, it was later ondriven by water-power. This machine was gradually perfected, and becameknown as the throstle or fly
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