James Hargreaves

The invention is generally attributed to a Lancashire textile worker called James Hargreaves, who fashioned the first prototype with a penknife.

'The Industrial Revolutionaries' 2009

However, when Watt later claimed to invent the spinning jenny, he was rebuffed in favor of James Hargreaves, an atheist so devout, he refused to say "God Bless You" when Queen Victoria sneezed.

Peter Mehlman: An Inconvenient Emmis 2008

From 1694 to 1696, Delarivier Manley travelled around the south-west of England; a series of eight letters composed during these travels to one 'J.H.' (possibly James Hargreaves or John Manley) were published without her permission as Letters by Mrs Manley to coincide with the production of her first play, a comedy called The Lost Lover, or the Jealous Husband (1696).

Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724) 2001

Jacks_ and her sone _John_, _James Hargreaves_ of _Marsden_,

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

In 1770, James Hargreaves got a patent on his ` ` spinning jenny. ''

The Story of Mankind 1921

Beginning with the flying shuttle of John Kay in 1738, followed by the spinning jenny of James Hargreaves in 1764, the water-frame of Richard Arkwright in 1769, and the mule of

The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906

According to the traditional story James Hargreaves, a small master weaver living near Blackburn, on coming suddenly into the house caused his wife, who was spinning with the old high wheel, to spring up with a start and overset the wheel, which still continued whirling, but horizontally, and with its spindle in a vertical position.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

John Kay, the inventor of the fly-shuttle, James Hargreaves, who introduced the spinning-jenny, and Samuel Compton, who originated mule-spinning, were all artisans, uneducated and poor, but were endowed with natural faculties which enabled them to make a more enduring impression upon the world than anything that could have been done by the mere power of scholarship or wealth.

An Iron Will Orison Swett Marden 1887

James Hargreaves, an illiterate weaver residing near Church, in Lancashire, who seven years previously had invented a carding machine, much like that in use at the present day, invented the spinning jenny, -- by which eighty spindles were set to work instead of the one of the spinning wheel.

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

James Hargreaves perfected the spinning jenny, the first machine that successfully spun cotton, in the late 1760s.

The Barefoot Bum The Barefoot Bum 2010