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The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the Spinning Mule. The introduction of machinery would have led to spinners losing their jobs. The advent of ...

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 ...

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 ...