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The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, a cotton weaver, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. He invented the first successful multi-spindle spinning machine. The early jennies ...

The spinning jenny was invented in 1764 by a Lancashire weaver called James Hargreaves. Before the invention, all machines for making thread could only spin one thread at a time. This meant that ...

a bunch of inventors said, “What if we let machines do that instead?” Enter the spinning jenny, a machine so revolutionary it made the hand-spun wool look like a primitive hobby. If you ...