Spinning Jenny
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“This machine carried a number of spindles turned by cords or belts from the same wheel, and operated by hand. It was a very simple affair, but it spun at first eight threads then sixteen, and within the inventor’s own lifetime eighty, thus doing the work of many spinning wheels."—Webster, 1920
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Wheel and AxleSource
Webster, Hutton Modern European History (Boston, MA: D.C. Heath & CO., 1920)
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