Who Invented the Spinning Jenny—and Why? Before the Industrial Revolution, European textile manufacturing was a cottage industry: Workers completed disparate parts of the process, ...

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.

Laying the groundwork for manufactured cotton thread, James Hargreaves invented the spinning Jenny in 1764 which greatly increased the speed at which yarn could be spun. In 1769 Richard Arkwright ...

Artefacts and information about James Hargreaves who invented the Spinning Jenny in 1764 will be curated at Stanhill Village's Methodist Chapel.

The relative odds that inventors were women, for example, nearly doubled from 0.07 in 1880 to 0.13 in 1940; essentially, women made up 3.5% to 6.5% of U.S. inventors.

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.

Artefacts and information about James Hargreaves who invented the Spinning Jenny in 1764 will be curated at Stanhill Village's Methodist Chapel.