Except this manufacturing data mule has, like, a lot of spinning wheels. Industrial historians are now ubiquitous at most manufacturers. Data storage is cheap, and many folks grab any and all tags ...

The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the Spinning Mule. The introduction of machinery would have led to spinners losing their jobs.

A £15 million eight-storey apartment block will be built at a town centre site where Samuel Crompton is thought to have started work on his Spinning Mule. The 90 riverside apartments will be ...

This Victorian spinning mule, with 300 spindles to twist fibres into yarn, would once have filled some of the region's turn-of-the-century textile mills with a distinctive cacophony of noise.