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
Pen spinning the website grew and its limits became apparent, Kam redistributed its information to two new websites, the first one of which, Pentrix, would eventually close indefinitely. On January 11, 2004, the second new website, the Universal Pen Spinning Board, was released and would act as the successor to the Pentix board to be the first pen spinning website with the goal of creating a centralized forum in which pen spinners from any website or location across the world could communicate. PenDolSa, an unrelated Korean pen spinning board released in 2003, acted as the first large-scale pen spinning forum prior to