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Q: What did people use to spin yarn before the spinning jenny?
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What are the advantages of the Spinning Jenny?

The spinning jenny produced yarn faster. The spinning jenny also made it easier to spin yarn. It took the place of people who had to spin the yarn.


What was the purpose of the spinning jenny?

spin thread


Do people use the Spinning Jenny anymore?

It's a spinning wheel - you can use it to make yarn. is a spinning whell you cna use it to make yarn, and ya


Did the cotton gin and the cotton jenny both spin thread?

it's called the Spinning Jenny and no, the Cotton Gin just took the seeds out while the Spinning Jenny actually spun thread. The spinning Jenny spun 8 threads at a time which sped up cloth making a good bit, the technology before the spinning Jenny only did 1 thread at a time, but it still saved them time


Write about a person who invented something. Who was this person What did he invent?

In 1764, James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny. The spinning jenny was named after James's wife. James invented the spinning jenny to spin yarn faster.


What is a spinning jenny?

The original Spinning jenny could spin eight spindles of yarn at a time, but as technology improved the most advanced Spinning jenny could spin one hundred twenty spindles at a time!


What British invention in the 1700s made it much faster to spin cotton into thread?

Spinning Jenny


What's spinning jenny used for?

The Spinning Jenny is a machine invented by James Hargreaves (probably in 1764) which was used to spin cotton fibre into thread on multiple spindles thus increasing production.


Who devised the spinning jenny?

it helped people to spin several threads at a time. and it even lowered the cost of fabric


What was the long term impact of the spinning jenny?

A positive impact is that the spinning jenny could make clothes faster and easier, by making multiple spools of yarn at a time. A negative impact is that spinning wheel makers were angry at the inventor, James Hargreaves, because they could go out of business if the spinning jenny became a common item. It is said that some of the makers of the spinning wheel sabotaged Hargreaves machines, and Hargreaves fled.


What is the Power source of the spinning jenny?

The person making the threads. When their foot taps up and down on the lever, it makes the wheel spin.


How long can someone spin around for?

My friend and I were spinning to try to break the record for the longest time spinning, until she fell. I kept on going for 15 minutes straight! -Jenny Lane