Spinning mule Rhode Island. Development over the next century and a half led to an automatic mule and to finer and stronger yarn. The ring frame, originating in New England in the 1820s, was little used in Lancashire until the 1890s. It required more energy and could not produce the finest counts. Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779, so called because it is a hybrid of Arkwright's water frame and James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in the same way that mule is the product of crossbreeding a female horse with a male donkey (a female donkey is called a "jenny"). The
Spinning the Wheel during the period when AIDS was newly discovered and rampant in the West. Spinning the Wheel "Spinning the Wheel" is a song by George Michael. The song was co-written by Michael and Jon Douglas. It was performed by George Michael and released on Virgin Records in 1996. The song was the third single taken from "Older" and it peaked at number 2 in the UK, kept off the top by the Spice Girls' "Wannabe". It also peaked within Top 10 in Denmark, Hungary and Spain. "Spinning the Wheel" subsequently appeared on both of George Michael's compilations "" and "Twenty Five".