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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



... on the very day Watt obtained his first patent, January 5th, 1769, Arkwright got his spinning-frame patent. Only the year before Hargreaves obtained his patent for the spinning-jenny. These are the two inventors, with Whitney, the American inventor of the cotton-gin, from whose brains came the development of the textile industry in which Britain still ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie

... a green gooseberry!" grumbled Effie Hargreaves. "If we only take a stroll along the portrait gallery, she thinks we're going to knock down the armour, or poke our fingers ...
— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil

... are again the drawing rollers, brought to such a state of perfection by Richard Arkwright, and here it may be useful to remind the readers of this story how superior in this respect of general adaption Arkwright's method of spinning was to that of Hargreaves'. It will be remembered that the latter named inventor utilised a travelling carriage, for drawing the cotton finer, while the former performed the ...
— The Story of the Cotton Plant • Frederick Wilkinson

... Archimedes, and would have been chronicled by Pappus with his usual truthfulness and judicious commendation; had they only but so laboured in Greece, antecedently to, or cotemporarily with, those "fathers of geometry," instead of in modern England, cotemporarily with the Hargreaves, the Peels, and the Arkwrights. Yet not one in a thousand of your readers, perhaps, has ever heard of these men; and the visible traces of their existence and labours are very few, scarce, and scattered. A vague general ...
— Notes & Queries,No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 • Various



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



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