1. The advent of the spinning jenny did not at first destroy home employment in spinning.

2. Sometimes it is: the bowand arrow, the spinning jenny and the computer were all adopted because theyallowed extraordinary gains in productivity.

3. Spinning Jenny was caused by the emergence of large numbers of hand-spinners who panic, they broke into Hargreaves's house and destroyed the machine. 1768 J.

4. Spinning jenny : Early multiple - spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton.

5. James Hargreaves, English inventor of the spinning jenny in 1764 , died at Nottingham.

6. The hand-powered spinning jenny was patented by James Hargreaves in 1770.

7. While Hargreaves was still working on his "spinning jenny, " Richard Arkwright in 1769 invented a water-power machine.

8. In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton.

9. I can't imagine anything since the invention of the spinning jenny that will so profoundly change the lives of people in the deepest rural parts of the emerging market.