Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things

Spinning jenny

Invented

1764

One worker could now spin several threads at once.

Sources and checks

Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.

Wikidata P575: 1764Q49015, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19

“Teknologi- og industrihistorie Internasjonal teknologi- og industrihistorie Spinning Jenny, utviklet av James Hargreaves i 1764, var en av de første oppfinnelsene som var med på å utvikle tekstilindustrien.”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19

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