Incremental advances improved the technology significantly. There were mule spinners still operational commercially in Europe in the 1970's. The ring spinning technology usurped production of most yarns almost a century earlier. read more
The Spinning Jenny inventor was a man called James Hargreaves who in 1764 was working as a weaver and carpenter in Standhill, Lancashire and although he was illiterate he knew there was a problem producing sufficient thread for the weavers. read more