Spinning mills used 'line shafting', which is the means by which the power of the steam engine is transmitted along rotating shafts (rods) to spinning or weaving mills. This animation depicts a ...

This spinning frame was one of many installed in Masson Mill. Similar machines ... mill anywhere to use a steam engine, which pumped water onto a waterwheel. By 1800 Manchester had emerged as ...

This spinning frame was one of many installed in Masson Mill. Similar machines ... mill anywhere to use a steam engine, which pumped water onto a waterwheel. By 1800 Manchester had emerged as ...