Spinning jenny: Quick Facts

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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.

Drawing of a woman operating a large spinning jenny with multiple spools in a room with two windows, a basket of raw material at her feet.

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Key People

Spinning jenny

James Hargreaves

English inventor

Vintage engraving from 1878 of the spinning room in Shadwell Rope Works. View of the factory floor. Industrial revolution

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