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  2. Spinning jenny - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Multi-spool spinning frame Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany. The spinning jenny is a multi- spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial ...

  3. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. [2] It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, which displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution.

  4. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

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    Spindle and distaff A spinning wheel used to make yarn. Hand spinning can be done by using a spindle or the spinning wheel. Spinning turns the carded wool fibres into yarn which can then be directly woven, knitted (flat or circular), crocheted, or by other means turned into fabric or a garment. The spinning wheel collects the yarn on a bobbin.

  5. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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    Samuel Crompton of Bolton combined elements of the spinning jenny and water frame in 1779, creating the spinning mule. This mule produced a stronger thread than the water frame could. Thus in 1780, there were two viable hand-operated spinning systems that could be easily adapted to run by power of water. [15]

  6. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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    The spinning jenny that was used in textile mills. The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented circa 1764, its invention attributed to James Hargreaves in Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire. [4] The spinning jenny was essentially an adaptation of the spinning wheel. [5]

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    It’s a story made for a Hollywood film, and in some ways, it already is.

  8. Waltham-Lowell system - Wikipedia

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    Resistance was led by the young women known as mill girls. With the mid-nineteenth-century growth in immigration and social changes post-Civil War, mill owners began to recruit immigrants, who often arrived with skills and were willing to work for lower wages. By mid-century, the Waltham-Lowell system proved unprofitable and collapsed.

  9. The Tragic Story of Jenny, the Titanic Cat - AOL

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    Jenny was one such cat who served as a mascot for the ship and also worked to keep the rats at bay. Not much is known about the feline, but in the years since the incident, various fascinating ...