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The spinning mule became self-acting (automatic) in 1830s. The mule was the most common spinning machine from 1790 until about 1900, but was still used for fine yarns until the 1960s. A cotton mill in 1890 would contain over 60 mules, each with 1320 spindles. [8]
Initially the firm made cotton-spinning machinery for sale, but this part of the business ended around 1800. Then they built the first of their three spinning mills in Union Street (now Redhill Street) in Ancoats , Manchester which formed the basis of Kennedy's working life for the next thirty years.
Peter Atherton (bapt. 24 June 1741 – 16 August 1799) was a British inventor, entrepreneur, and cotton mill proprietor. [1] Renowned for his pioneering work as a designer and manufacturer of textile machinery during the early Industrial Revolution, [2] [3] Atherton began his career by assisting Richard Arkwright and John Kay in developing the ground-breaking spinning frame in the late 1760s.
They initially concentrated on looms, but eventually expanded to manufacture the complete range of machinery used in a cotton mill. John Bullough, (born 1837) died in 1891. By then Bulloughs was the world's largest manufacturer of ring spinning frames, and John, the owner of the Isle of Rùm, was the first cotton machine manufacturing ...
Richard Haworth and Co. was established by Richard Haworth in 1854 as a cotton spinning and manufacturing firm in Cannon Street, Manchester, and Tatton Mill in Salford.. Today the company is part of the Ruia Group which comprises a number of companies that import, supply and distribute textiles and hosiery to retailers and hospitality organisa
Perhaps the most modern machines were ring spinning frames, dated 1967." [13] Mons (formerly Hare) Abraham Stott : Todmorden: 1907 : 1968 : 61: Notes: Seven-storeyed steam-powered cotton-spinning mill built for the Hare Spinning Company Limited. It was constructed of red Accrington brick, designed by Abraham Stott.
The Paul-Wyatt cotton mills were the world's first mechanised cotton spinning factories. [1] Operating from 1741 until 1764 they were built to house the roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt. They were not very profitable but they spun cotton successfully for several decades. [2]
Headstock of a Hetherington designed Spinning Mule 1892. John Hetherington & Sons was founded in 1830. The company gradually expanded and acquired a number of factory buildings in Ancoats. It established the Vulcan Works on Pollard Street in around 1856 and left these buildings in 1939 when the Lancashire cotton industry was in decline.