James Hargreaves
1720–1778
English cotton weaver; inventor of the spinning jenny
carpenter · inventor
Born in Blackburn
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as James Hargreaves:
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- George Washington (1732–1799)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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