The Industrial Revolution was a period of history that ... An illustration of a woman using a spinning jenny, c.1880s. The spinning jenny allowed one person to produce many threads much more ...

The Spinning Jenny is an interesting case, because it automated the spinning of yarn, a task that was done largely by groups of women, by hand, before the Industrial Revolution kicked into high gear.

Ah, the Industrial Revolution—a time when humanity collectively ... “What if we let machines do that instead?” Enter the spinning jenny, a machine so revolutionary it made the hand-spun ...