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 ...

People were happily spinning wool by hand, and then—BAM!—a bunch of inventors said, “What if we let machines do that instead?

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 ...