Spinning is a relatively simple process in which cotton fibres are stretched and twisted together to form a single, strong thread.
Highs quickly turned his attention to roller spinning, and it was now that James Hargreaves came onto the scene, producing his own version of the jenny used a pocket knife as his main tool in building the machine - The big advantage of the jenny, which is the one that became famous.
The water frame used the differential rollers invented by Paul and Wyatt, coupled with the flyer-system of twisting the thread as used in the Saxony Wheel.
Samuel Crompton is perhaps best known as the Bolton born inventor of the famous "spinning mule" which was to play such an important role in the 18th and 19th century development of Manchester's textile industry and in the foundation of mass-production techniques which were pioneered here.
JohnKay was born at Park, just North of Bury, in June 1704.
Kay's design was to change that process forever - his flying shuttle moved from one side of the loom to another by little more than a flick of the wrist of one hand, and one man could fully operate a loom adapted to accommodate the flying shuttle.
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