Spinning jenny

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You know- Spinning jenny.

The answer is not spinning jenny, but I have a hint for you.

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Twirling Susan.

In 1764, James Hargreaves invented what device that allowed people to use more spindles to create more material? You already said it.

The loom.

But earlier, the first thing you- The spinning jenny.

So just have a quick chat.

Spinning Jenny, if you did really boring industrial rev- revolution stuff, it, um, is a way of spinning.

[laughs] [audience chattering] Okay, any, any thoughts I probably haven't got time to feed it all back.

The American Revolution, obviously, it's the whatever the anniversary is.

Um, for most of this time, America was still colonies.

Okay? So they were more kind of ours, as it were.

Um, spinning jenny, yes, that was invented during this time.

It's the very beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

The mother always spun enough cotton and wool to supply the family with linsey-woolsey for clothes and with yarns for socks.

James Hargraves and the Spinning Jenny.

The spinning wheel, which made only one thread at a time, was displaced by the spinning jenny, on which 20, 50, 100, and even 1,000 threads can be spun at once.

The inventor was James Hargraves, an Englishman.

Hargraves sat pondering one day over a faster way to spin cotton.

The spindle, which was thrown from a horizontal to an upright position, continued to whirl.

Hargraves saw, by one of those flashes of thought which come to the genius that, if a number of spindles were placed upright side by side and a way found to draw out the rovings as they were twisted, a number of threads could be spun by one pair of hands at one time.

The idea of the spinning jenny was thus born.

I didn't either.

And I also discovered that there is a thing called a spinning Jenny.

Hmm.

which is a multiple spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton.

I don't know why it's called a spinning Jenny, but I like it's kind of like a whirling dervish.

I like

whirling dervish or spinning Jenny.

I love it.