What textile-spinning machine, invented in 1779, was given its animal-inspired name because it was a hybrid of the spinning jenny and the water frame?
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Spinning mule
Just as a biological mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey, the spinning mule combined the moving carriage of the jenny with the rollers of the water frame.
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- Invented in 1779, what textile machine was named for an animal because it combined features of the water frame and the spinning jenny?