Spinning jenny
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spinning-jenny-227-2113371
title:
Spinning jenny
text:
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764–1765 by James Hargreaves in Stan hill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce cloth, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced. The yarn produced by the jenny was not very strong until R
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Multi-spool spinning frame
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_jenny
date created:
2003-10-26T18:15:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T06:57:38Z
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