An old engraving of a spinning jenny. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle, thread-producing spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in c. 1765 by James Hargreaves (c. 1720–1778) in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK. Hargreaves spent some time improving John Kay’s flying shuttle, which had doubling weaving productivity. The spinning jenny increased productivity even more.
An old engraving of a spinning jenny. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle, thread-producing spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in c. 1765 by James Hargreaves (c. 1720–1778) in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK. Hargreaves spent some time improving John Kay’s flying shuttle, which had doubling weaving productivity. The spinning jenny increased productivity even more. The machine produced a coarse thread.
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Location: Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
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