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