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The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, a cotton weaver, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. He invented the first successful multi-spindle spinning machine. The early jennies ...

This allowed individual weavers to produce cloth much more quickly. An illustration of a woman using a spinning jenny, c.1880s. The spinning jenny allowed one person to produce many threads much ...