Spinning jenny

The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. James Hargreaves was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor, famous for creating the Jenny spinner in 1764. He was born on December 13, 1720, Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom and died on April 22, 1778

1746 Hargreaves (and the Spinning Jenny)

Born in 1765 - a time of massive social change encouraged by the development and application of many technological inventions. These changes forced my family to move from a rural area near Bolton to the industrial town of Manchester. This is some of my story...

The Spinning Jenny as shown here was originally invented by James Hargreaves in 1766; like Samuel Crompton who invented the mule-driven version, the mule jenny, James Hargreaves died without much

James Hargreaves was born around January 8th, 1721, in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England, and died in April 22nd, 1778, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. He was the inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine. It was a significant factor in the industrialization of the textile industry.

Context: Northern Europe’s use of cotton in textiles began with Indian cotton imports during the medieval period. Pre-industrial spinning of fibers into textile was limited to hand-spun spinnin…

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Gilles de Lavallee’s attempt to bring textile manufacturing to the United States in 1786 was a failure for several reasons.

James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in 1764, and the machine changed the history of textile production and moved workers into factories.