James Hargreaves James Hargreaves James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors responsible for mechanising spinning. Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright patented the water frame in 1769, and Samuel Crompton combined the two creating the spinning mule in 1779. James Hargreaves was born at Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire. He was described as "stout, broadest man of about five-foot ten, or rather more". He was illiterate and worked as a hand loom weaver during most of his life. He married and
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