Spinning Jenny

Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, Germany

The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented around 1764 by James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) in Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire in the northwest of England. The device dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn. A single worker could work eight or more spools at once.^[1]

The spinning jenny was a huge success due to the fact that it could hold more than one ball of yarn, therefore making more clothing materials in a shorter amount of time while reducing the overall cost.

Thomas Highs (1718–1803) also claimed patents on the spinning jenny, and on other machines for cloth production.^[2]

Related pages

Industrial Revolution

References

↑ Baines, Edward 1835. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain. London: Fisher, Fisher Jackson.
↑ Marsden, Richard 1884. Cotton Spinning: its development, principles and practice. London: George Bell and Sons.

Other websites

Essay from http://www.cottontown.org on Hargreaves and the spinning jenny.
Essay from http://www.cottonttimes.co.uk on Highs and the spinning jenny.
Source for alternate name of spinning ginny

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[1] Baines, Edward 1835. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain. London: Fisher, Fisher Jackson.

[2] Marsden, Richard 1884. Cotton Spinning: its development, principles and practice. London: George Bell and Sons.

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