James Hargreaves, sitting alone there in his little house
in Yorkshire, finding that he could not get enough from the
spinners of cotton to supply his wants as a weaver, cast about
for a way to spin faster. After many weary days, and weeks,
and months, he found out a method by which he could spin eight
threads in the same time that one had previously been spun; and
being asked for a name for the instrument, he looked lovingly
upon his wife, and said: “We’ll call it Jenny”; and the modest
Jenny has come down to posterity, and will go to remotest
generations with the name of the “Spinning Jenny.”--GEORGE
DAWSON.
(1909)