spinning jenny

The spinning jenny replaced weavers, buttons displaced elevator operators, and the Internet drove travel agencies out of business.

To Hargreaves, inventing the spinning-jenny, a mob and a flight from Lancashire, a wrecked machine and a sacked house!

The spinning jenny came into use a little after 1750, and the power loom was invented near the close of the century.

In that year James Hargreaves completed his invention of the spinning-jenny, which he patented in 1770.

First there must be a spinning-jenny to go by steam, to the wheel of which there must be a hand-organ.

The first to be brought to actual completion was Hargreaves' spinning-jenny, invented in 1764.