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Hargreaves, James
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Inventor of the spinning-jenny, born at Standhill, near Blackburn; was a poor and illiterate weaver when in 1760 he, in conjunction with Robert Peel, brought out a carding-machine; in 1766 he invented the spinning-jenny, a machine which has since revolutionised the cotton-weaving industry, but which at the time evoked the angry resentment of the hand-weaver; he was driven from his native town and settled in Nottingham, where he started a spinning-mill; he failed to get his machine patented, and died in comparative poverty (1745-1778).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hargreaves, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hargreaves-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hargreaves, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hargreaves-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
