jenny

Example Sentences

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While the spinning jenny was key to 18th century automation of the textiles industry, they found it led to longer working hours in harsher conditions.

From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2023

“Scientific evidence for intelligence in donkeys could expose their historical unmerited cognitive derogatory status,” the report begins about the species — the male of which is called a jack and the female is a jenny.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021

She began with Adams' "for jenny," as if finding harmonics on her strings from a hum arising from a loudspeaker placed inside a snare drum, which remained next to her throughout the recital.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2018

The process began in England, where the invention of the spinning jenny enabled a single worker to make thread on six or seven spindles at once, and subsequent improvements increased this number rapidly.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton