Spinning Jenny

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Early mechanical spinning device invented in the 1760s

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UnknownBoring History for Sleep · What Ordinary Evenings Looked Like for Women in 1700s Househ... · 2:01:53 · 11 May
…The Spinning Jenny, invented by James Hargreaves around 1764, allowed a single operator to spin multiple threads simultaneously, reducing the labour required per unit of yarn output by a factor that made household spinning economically uncompetitive.…
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