The spinning jenny was invented about 1764 by James Hargreaves, a spinner and weaver living in Lancashire, England. His invention enabled a single worker to spin multiple threads simultaneously instead of just one, as with a traditional spinning wheel. Hargreaves patented the hand-powered machine in 1770, during the Industrial Revolution.
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