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James Hargreaves



Hargreaves, James (1720?–78), British inventor of the spinning jenny (1764), a machine for spinning several threads at once. Public uproar over loss of jobs forced him to flee his native Blackburn for Nottingham (1768), where he patented the jenny (1770).



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