Spinning jenny was an abbreviation of 'engine'. Thomas Highs of Leigh has claimed to be the inventor and the story is repeated using his wife's name. Another myth has Thomas Earnshaw inventing a spinning device of a similar description - but destroying it after fearing he might be taking bread out of the mouths of the poor. Spinning jenny The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. The device reduced the
Spinning pinwheel this information, the developer can rewrite code to avoid the cursor being activated. Apple's guidelines suggest that developers try to avoid invoking the spinning wait cursor, and suggest other user interface indicators, such as an asynchronous progress indicator. The spinning wait cursor is commonly referred to as the (Spinning) "x" (of Death/Doom). The most common words or phrases "x" can be replaced with include: Spinning pinwheel The spinning pinwheel is a variation of the mouse pointer arrow, used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. Officially, the "macOS Human Interface Guidelines" refers to it as the spinning