alleryThe Spinning Jenny was invented by:
ARichard Arkwright
BEdmund Cartwright
CSamuel Crompton
DJames Hargreaves
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. James Hargreaves
1. Your syllabus lists textile inventions chronologically.
2. James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny in 1764 — it sped up the spinning process.
3. Arkwright made the Water Frame; Crompton made the Mule; Cartwright invented the Power Loom.
_Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 4 "The Age of Industrialisation", §Inventions ¶2_
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