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  2. Spinning jenny - Wikipedia

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    The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves.He was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, around 1720.Blackburn was a town with a population of about 5,000, known for the production of "Blackburn greys," cloths of linen warp and cotton weft initially imported from India.

  3. James Hargreaves - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of English inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1764: The spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves (c. 1720–1778). 1767: Spinning frame invented by John Kay of Warrington. 1769: The water frame, a water-powered spinning frame, developed by Richard Arkwright (1732–1792). 1775–1779: Spinning mule invented by Samuel Crompton (1753–1827). 1784: Power loom invented by Edmund Cartwright ...

  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. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. 1765: James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser. 1767: Joseph Priestley invents a method for the production of carbonated water .

  7. Thomas Highs - Wikipedia

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    The accepted story is that Samuel Crompton of Bolton invented the spinning mule, which was a cross between the spinning jenny and the water frame, using the moving-carriage principle and the spindle-winding system of the earlier machine with the drafting rollers of the later one. Crompton claimed he had no knowledge of Arkwright's rollers and ...

  8. Hand spinning - Wikipedia

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    Powered spinning, originally done by water or steam power but now done by electricity, is vastly faster than hand-spinning. The spinning jenny, a multi-spool spinning wheel invented c. 1764 by James Hargreaves, dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn of high consistency, with a single worker able to work eight or more ...

  9. List of British innovations and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny, which was a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. James Small advances the design of the plough using mathematical methods to improve on the Scotch plough of James Anderson of ...