The spinning jenny was an early hand-powered machine for spinning wool or cotton into yarn. Invented by James Hargreaves in England and patented in 1770, it used multiple spindles so one worker could spin several threads at the same time. This greatly increased the amount of yarn a worker could make and helped change textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution.
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