WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The spinning jenny was used to ____
A
weave cloth
B
sort cotton
C
make electricity
D
aid transportation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -James Hargreaves’ ‘Spinning Jenny’, the patent for which is shown here, would revolutionise the process of cotton spinning. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once.

Detailed explanation-2: -spinning jenny, early multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton.

Detailed explanation-3: -Before the spinning jenny, the flying shuttle dramatically increased the speed of weaving cloth. Around the same time the spinning jenny was created, Richard Arkwright invented the water frame, a mechanical device powered by water wheels that was used to spin thread.

Detailed explanation-4: -A multi-spindle spinning frame, one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England.

Detailed explanation-5: -James Hargreaves was an English inventor and is remembered today for inventing the spinning jenny, which was important to the textile industry in England.

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