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Has the spinning jenny been replaced?

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Incremental advances improved the technology significantly. There were mule spinners still operational commercially in Europe in the 1970's. The ring spinning technology usurped production of most yarns almost a century earlier. read more

The Spinning Jenny inventor was a man called James Hargreaves who in 1764 was working as a weaver and carpenter in Standhill, Lancashire and although he was illiterate he knew there was a problem producing sufficient thread for the weavers. read more

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