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Also Known As James Hargraves
Baptized January 8, 1721
Died April 22, 1778 • Nottingham • England
Inventions spinning jenny

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Spinning jenny
Copperplate engraving of a spinning jenny textile machine, showing a large hand wheel, multiple spindles, and wooden frame used for woolen yarn production.
Diagram titled Spinning jenny showing an operator using a hand wheel to rotate a cord-driven roller, drawing and twisting fibers from multiple clamped rovings onto tilted spindles; numbered callouts trace the process from roving to thread.
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Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Jean-Joseph Étienne Lenoir
(Jean-Joseph-) Étienne Lenoir
Belgian inventor
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
George Eastman, 1926.
George Eastman
American inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer
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Herman Hollerith
American inventor
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
British engineer
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Leo Fender
American inventor and manufacturer
Hoe, Richard March
Richard March Hoe
American inventor and manufacturer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
American chemist
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Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
English agronomist
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Charles Chubb
British inventor
Ransom Eli Olds, c. 1920.
Ransom Eli Olds
American manufacturer
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Hilaire Bernigaud, count de Chardonnet
French chemist
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Christopher M. Spencer
American inventor and manufacturer
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Edwin Norton
American inventor and manufacturer
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Elisha King Root
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David Wilkinson
American inventor

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