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  2. Spinning jenny - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Multi-spool spinning frame Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany. 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 ...

  3. James Hargreaves - Wikipedia

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    The improved spinning jenny that was used in textile mills Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, Germany. The idea for the spinning jenny is said to have come when a one-thread spinning wheel was overturned on the floor, and Hargreaves saw both the wheel and the spindle continuing to revolve.

  4. Thomas Highs - Wikipedia

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    A drawing of Thomas Highs' spinning jenny, taken from Edward Baines's History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. Thomas Highs (1718–1803), of Leigh, Lancashire, was a reed-maker [1] [2] and manufacturer of cotton carding and spinning engines in the 1780s, during the Industrial Revolution.

  5. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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    The spinning jenny that was used in textile mills. The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented circa 1764, its invention attributed to James Hargreaves in Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire. [4] The spinning jenny was essentially an adaptation of the spinning wheel. [5]

  6. Waltham-Lowell system - Wikipedia

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    Boston Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Massachusetts The Waltham-Lowell system was a labor and production model employed during the rise of the textile industry in the United States, particularly in New England, during the rapid expansion of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century.

  7. Cotton mill - Wikipedia

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    The roller spinning principle of Paul and Bourne became the basis of Richard Arkwright's spinning frame and water frame, patented in 1769. [8] The principles of the spinning jenny and water frame were combined by Samuel Crompton in his spinning mule of 1779, but water power was not applied to it until 1792. [9]

  8. ‘The Michael Jackson Video Game Conspiracy’ by Huffington Post

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    In 1990, the company had released "Moonwalker," a game based on a Jackson movie. In it, players danced their way across a beat-'em-up game world, fighting bad guys and saving children. Then, in 1991, Sega debuted "Sonic the Hedgehog," which would become its marquee franchise. Sonic 2 came out the following year. Jackson was smitten.

  9. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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    1764 – James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the spinning jenny (patented 1770). 1767 – John Kay invents the spinning frame. 1768 – Josiah Crane invents the hand-operated warp knitting machine. 1769 – Richard Arkwright's water frame. 1769 – Samuel Wise solves the mechanization of W. Lee's stocking frame.