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Hargreaves   /hˈɑrgrˌivz/   Listen
Hargreaves

noun
1.
English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778).  Synonym: James Hargreaves.





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"Hargreaves" Quotes from Famous Books



... MECHANICS.—One Thousand Horse Power Corliss Engine. 5 figures, to scale, illustrating the construction of the new one thousand horse power Corliss engine, by Hitch, Hargreaves ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various
... town in Lancashire, 21 m. NW. of Manchester, a centre of the cotton industry, and the greatest in the world; is the birthplace of Hargreaves, the ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... "Old Bank, in Monday Market; Popham & Hargreaves, in the Square; Wrychester Bank, ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... this difficulty became yet greater when the invention of the fly-shuttle enabled one weaver to do in a single day what had hitherto been the work of two. The difficulty was solved by a Blackburn weaver, John Hargreaves, who noticed that his wife's spindle, which had been accidentally upset, continued to revolve in an upright position on the floor, while the thread was still spinning in her hand. The hint led him to connect ...
— History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) - Modern England, 1760-1815 • John Richard Green


Words linked to "Hargreaves" :   artificer, discoverer, James Hargreaves, inventor


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