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in all probability was derived from India.* But on 

 the introduction of Hargreaves's invention, which 

 was a machine containing a number of spindles, it 

 assumed the name of a Jenny from its performing 

 the work of a female .Crompton's machine 

 was called the Hall-in-the-wood wheel, or muslin 

 wheel, because its capabilities were rendered 

 available for yarn for making muslins: and 

 finally it got the name of the mule, from its 

 partaking of the two leading features of Mr. 

 Arkwright*s machine, and Hargreaves's spinning 

 jenny. Mr. Crompton's invention consisted in 

 erecting his spindles on a moveable carriage, 

 which at the same time turned on their axes and 

 centres, whilst the moveable carriage was reced- 

 ing from the beam or rollers which measured out 

 the rove to a certain length. His first suggestion 

 was to introduce a single pair of rollers, viz. 

 a top and a bottom, which he expected would 

 elongate the rove by pressure, like the process 

 by which metals are drawn out, and which he 

 observed in the wire-drawing for reeds used in 

 the loom. In this he was disappointed, and 

 afterwards adopted a second pair of rollers, the 

 latter pair revolving at a slower speed than the 

 former; and thus producing a draught of one 



• The jersey wheel and distaflF arc implements, which the 

 Hindoos have used from a remote period of antiquity, and arc 

 those which without any alteration, they still employ in spinning. 



