a bunch of inventors said, “What if we let machines do that instead?” Enter the spinning jenny, a machine so revolutionary it ...

This machine was made at the loomshop of the Rhodes family of Diggle near Saddleworth, and was used at Helmshore Textile Mill for spinning wool until 1916. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 ...

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 ...