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The spinning frame was an invention
Invention

An invention is the creation of a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing models or ideas....
 developed during the 18th century British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
. It was later developed into the water frame
Water frame

The water frame is the name given to the spinning frame, when water power was used to drive it. Both are credited to Richard Arkwright who patented and exploited the technology in 1762....
 (patented in 1769), and was used to increase production of textile
Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by Spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands known as yarn....
s in factories
Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industry building where workers manufacturing Good or supervise machines Process Manufacturing one product into another....
.

Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright , was an England who is credited for inventing the spinning frame ? later renamed the water frame following the transition to Hydropower....
 employed John Kay
John Kay (spinning frame)

John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England. He is known by association with Thomas Highs and later Richard Arkwright for the scandal associated with the inventor of the spinning frame in 1767: an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution....
 to produce a new spinning-machine that Kay had worked on with (or possibly stolen from) another inventor called Thomas Highs
Thomas Highs

Thomas Highs was a talented England reed-maker and inventor known for his creation of the spinning jenny, the throstle , and the water frame during the Industrial Revolution....
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The spinning frame was an invention
Invention

An invention is the creation of a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing models or ideas....
 developed during the 18th century British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
. It was later developed into the water frame
Water frame

The water frame is the name given to the spinning frame, when water power was used to drive it. Both are credited to Richard Arkwright who patented and exploited the technology in 1762....
 (patented in 1769), and was used to increase production of textile
Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by Spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands known as yarn....
s in factories
Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industry building where workers manufacturing Good or supervise machines Process Manufacturing one product into another....
.

Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright , was an England who is credited for inventing the spinning frame ? later renamed the water frame following the transition to Hydropower....
 employed John Kay
John Kay (spinning frame)

John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England. He is known by association with Thomas Highs and later Richard Arkwright for the scandal associated with the inventor of the spinning frame in 1767: an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution....
 to produce a new spinning-machine that Kay had worked on with (or possibly stolen from) another inventor called Thomas Highs
Thomas Highs

Thomas Highs was a talented England reed-maker and inventor known for his creation of the spinning jenny, the throstle , and the water frame during the Industrial Revolution....
 . With the help of other local craftsmen the team produced the spinning frame, which produced a stronger thread than the spinning jenny
Spinning jenny

The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented circa 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire in the northwest of England ....
 produced by James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves

James Hargreaves was a Weaver , carpenter and an inventor in Lancashire, England. He is credited with inventing the Spinning Jennifer in 1764....
. The frame employed the draw rollers invented by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul

Lewis Paul was the original inventor of roller spinning, the basis of the water frame for Spinning cotton in a cotton mill....
 to stretch, or attenuate, the yarn
Yarn

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and ropemaking....
.

A thick 'string' of cotton roving was passed between three sets of rollers, each set rotating faster than the previous one. In this way it was reduced in thickness and increased in length before a strengthening twist was added by a bobbin-and-flyer mechanism.

Too large to be operated by hand, the spinning frame needed a new source of power. Arkwright at first experimented with horses, but decided to employ the power of the water wheel
Water wheel

A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into more useful forms of power, a process otherwise known as hydropower....
, which gave the invention the name 'water frame'.

See also

  • Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
    Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution

    With the establishment of overseas colony, the British Empire at the end of the 17th century/beginning of the 18th century had a vast source of raw materials and a vast market for manufactured goods....
  • Timeline of clothing and textiles technology
    Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

    Timeline of clothing and textiles technology.*pre-history - spindle used to create yarn from fibers.* - loom.*c. Upper Paleolithic - Impressions of textiles and basketry and nets left on little pieces of hard clay....


External links


  • on Arkwright, showing his links with Kay and Highs.