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
Pen spinning the website grew and its limits became apparent, Kam redistributed its information to two new websites, the first one of which, Pentrix, would eventually close indefinitely. On January 11, 2004, the second new website, the Universal Pen Spinning Board, was released and would act as the successor to the Pentix board to be the first pen spinning website with the goal of creating a centralized forum in which pen spinners from any website or location across the world could communicate. PenDolSa, an unrelated Korean pen spinning board released in 2003, acted as the first large-scale pen spinning forum prior to