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James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) [2] was an English weaver, carpenter [citation needed] and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England.Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764.
Jenny Weaver – a sensitive teenage girl from our world and the reader's point-of-view character throughout the series. Butch – Jenny's older brother, a typical blustering bully who, after a mishap in the first issue of the series, is transformed into a talking chimpanzee whenever he is on Zot's world.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 December 2024. 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 ...
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About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin. [6] It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i' th' Woodwheel, [7] from the name of the house in which he and his family now lived. [8] The mule-jenny later became known as the spinning mule.