SPINNING JENNY

                            The "Spinning Jenny" was invented by James Hargreaves (1720 - 1778) in 1764. Turned by hand, the "Spinning Jenny" which Hargreaves named after his wife, enable one person to spin eight threads at the same time. Combines with the flying shuttle that John Kay patented in 1733, it revolutionized the cotton industry.
                              

                           Cotton workers, worried that these machines would threaten their livelihood, raided Hargreasives's house in 1768 and smashed his equipment but they could not stop the wind to change - industrial revolution, that was sweeping England.