biography
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| lived:
| (c.1720–78)
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| biography:
| Inventor, probably born in Blackburn, Lancashire, NW England, UK. An illiterate weaver and carpenter, c.1764 he invented the spinning jenny (named after his daughter); but his fellow spinners broke into his house and destroyed his frame (1768). He moved to Nottingham, where he erected a spinning mill, and continued to manufacture yarn until his death. |
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