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James Hargreaves , 1720?-1778, English engineer. In 1762 he made an unsuccessful attempt to develop a machine for carding, a process preparatory to spinning , and in 1764 he invented the spinning jenny, which resulted in doubling production in the carding process.

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Hargreaves, James (1720–78). Inventor. Hargreaves was a largely self‐taught weaver from Lancashire, who invented the spinning jenny in 1764 and patented it in 1770. Kay's flying‐shuttle had greatly speeded up the process of weaving and Hargreaves's jenny, using several spindles at once, enabled spinning to keep up.

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