Sentence examples for spinning jenny from inspiring English sources

This last point is important to historians because it suggests the working classes who experienced industrialisation (in 1764 Hargreaves would invent the spinning jenny to be followed later by Arkwright's spinning frame) were not shut out from its benefits and pleasures.

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

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

James Hargreaves's spinning jenny (patented 1770) operated a number of spindles simultaneously but was suitable only for making yarn used as filling.

It took more than the spinning jenny or the steam engine to transform local, agrarian, family-based communities into national, urban, individualistic ones.

The thread made on James Hargreaves' spinning jenny (invented about 1767) lacked the strength of Arkwright's cotton yarn and was suitable only for weft.

It was one of these sculptures, The Nervous System, a spinning jenny-like loom, that brought Shawcross to the public's attention when, in 2004, Charles Saatchi bought it for £26,000 and exhibited it in his New Blood show.

Take the industrial revolution: the stories about spinning jennys and water frames are all part of our heritage.

In the spring of 1768, the spinning jennies at Peel's factory were blamed for job losses.

In 1790, the United States had less than 2,000 spindles which were powered by spinning jennys, compared to 2.4 million machine driven spindles in Britain at the same time.

The factories and Hargreaves' nearby house were the targets of a riot, destroying the spinning jennies within – along with some of Peel's own inventions.