jenny
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While the spinning jenny was key to 18th century automation of the textiles industry, they found it led to longer working hours in harsher conditions.
From Reuters ● Aug. 7, 2023
“Scientific evidence for intelligence in donkeys could expose their historical unmerited cognitive derogatory status,” the report begins about the species — the male of which is called a jack and the female is a jenny.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
She began with Adams' "for jenny," as if finding harmonics on her strings from a hum arising from a loudspeaker placed inside a snare drum, which remained next to her throughout the recital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2018
The process began in England, where the invention of the spinning jenny enabled a single worker to make thread on six or seven spindles at once, and subsequent improvements increased this number rapidly.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Perhaps most significantly, they also manufactured machines that produced parts for other machines, such as spinning jennies and flying shuttles.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“We’re improving techniques so jennies don’t end up empty,” Zhen says.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 12, 2019
The 43-acre site is home to 150 jacks, jennies and foals.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2017
He’s physically intimidating, aesthetically off-putting, and vastly more powerful and efficient than a human—not unlike the spinning jennies and rolling mills taking over industry at the time.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2017
Before he died he saw the wheat fields of North Dakota linked with the spinning jennies of Manchester and the docks of Yokohama.
From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard
