Historedia
Person

James Hargreaves

Events
1
Episodes
1
Years
1779

Every event in Historedia whose sources name James Hargreaves, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Perfection of the Spinning Mule by Samuel Crompton

    1779

    Role: Inventor of the spinning jenny, one of the mule's parent technologies

    1. 1779 · Lancashire, where Crompton developed and perfected the muleCrompton perfects the spinning mule

      About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a hybrid spinning machine whose yarn was suitable for muslin manufacture.

Sources

  1. Spinning mule Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-10
  2. Samuel Crompton Wikipedia, revision of 2026-02-27