Spinning jenny 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 amount of work needed to produce cloth, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced. The yarn produced by the jenny was not very strong until Richard Arkwright invented the water-powered 'water frame', which produced yarn harder and stronger than that of the initial
Spinning the Wheel during the period when AIDS was newly discovered and rampant in the West. Spinning the Wheel "Spinning the Wheel" is a song by George Michael. The song was co-written by Michael and Jon Douglas. It was performed by George Michael and released on Virgin Records in 1996. The song was the third single taken from "Older" and it peaked at number 2 in the UK, kept off the top by the Spice Girls' "Wannabe". It also peaked within Top 10 in Denmark, Hungary and Spain. "Spinning the Wheel" subsequently appeared on both of George Michael's compilations "" and "Twenty Five".