spinning 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
The first was technological innovation in the industrial north; spinning machines, the invention of the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny and power looms were the forerunners of the Industrial Revolution.
From Economist • Dec. 30, 2014
But Glass is just as embedded in the larger transformations we are going through as the spinning jenny was to the Industrial Revolution.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2014
The price of labor in England and the United States has multiplied several fold since the invention of the steam engine, the spinning jenny, the cotton gin and the power loom.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013
There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
