| 单词 | jenny |
| 例句 | There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One, called “jenny’s trying,” is just one line: “why hide?” For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the Message 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “Scientific evidence for intelligence in donkeys could expose their historical unmerited cognitive derogatory status,” the report begins about the species — the male of which is called a jack and the female is a jenny. Why a media executive left his career to help maligned donkeys and save them from slaughter 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The first was technological innovation in the industrial north; spinning machines, the invention of the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny and power looms were the forerunners of the Industrial Revolution. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z While the spinning jenny was key to 18th century automation of the textiles industry, they found it led to longer working hours in harsher conditions. Will AI be an economic blessing or curse? History offers clues 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps most significantly, they also manufactured machines that produced parts for other machines, such as spinning jennies and flying shuttles. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The process began in England, where the invention of the spinning jenny enabled a single worker to make thread on six or seven spindles at once, and subsequent improvements increased this number rapidly. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z At first, textile workers operated the flying shuttle and the spinning jenny by hand. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These jeremiads attended the invention of computers, combine harvesters, spinning jennies and probably iron-age axes. Worrying about robots stealing our jobs? How silly | Simon Jenkins 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In Mr Allen’s narrative, spinners’ wages, though very low by modern standards, were high enough to motivate the development and deployment of equipment like the spinning jenny. The Industrial Revolution could shed light on modern productivity 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z She began with Adams' "for jenny," as if finding harmonics on her strings from a hum arising from a loudspeaker placed inside a snare drum, which remained next to her throughout the recital. Jennifer Koh and the 'Shared Madness' of coming between a violinist and her violin 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The 43-acre site is home to 150 jacks, jennies and foals. Antigua's donkey dynasty 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z His spinning jenny allowed one spinner to work eight threads at a time. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not a novel concern: Spinning jennies, which revolutionized the weaving industry, sparked similar resistance in 19th century England. Amazon’s robots: job destroyers or dance partners? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The large "spinning jennies" and Mule spinning machines were worked by men, as strength was needed to operate them. What the Women of Britain's Early Factories Did About Work-Life Balance 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z As far as relevance and utility are concerned, we might as well train children to operate a spinning jenny. In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant| George Monbiot 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z To him, the mechanisms through which early European intellectuals affected technological progress are deeper and more complex than simply, 'How much science was needed to build a spinning jenny?'. Economic history: The roots of growth : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The Industrial Revolution happened because of inventions such as the spinning jenny and the steam engine. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Inventions like Perkin’s — and the steam engine, the spinning jenny, the telegraph, the Bessemer steel-production process — destroyed the last vestiges of this way of life. Welcome to the Failure Age! 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z But Glass is just as embedded in the larger transformations we are going through as the spinning jenny was to the Industrial Revolution. The Bay is burning! Google Glass, techno-rage and the battle for San Francisco’s soul 2014-04-18T11:45:00Z A female donkey is called a jenny, so combine it with a horse and you kind of get a hinny. Top Ten Insanely Great Science Terms 2014-03-13T19:42:20Z The price of labor in England and the United States has multiplied several fold since the invention of the steam engine, the spinning jenny, the cotton gin and the power loom.” 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: The News on Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky 2013-09-16T13:15:52.257Z I don't think has the ability to judge that study or any other study. commentpanther @ It was jenny McCarthy who was skeptical of vaccines, not Oprah. Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science 2013-05-31T09:00:42Z Workers were able to work eight or more spools at once on the original spinning jenny. Five ways you never knew the UK changed fashion 2012-09-13T09:33:25Z It took more than the spinning jenny or the steam engine to transform local, agrarian, family-based communities into national, urban, individualistic ones. Way of the World: A U.S. Campaign Fixated on Another Era 2012-08-30T15:18:21Z A long jenny is a losing hazard off a ball similarly placed into one of the top pockets. Hoyle's Games Modernized 2012-04-15T02:00:05.927Z Arkwright, inventor of spinning jenny, founder of two county families, 37. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z As Jehovah has ceased to make garments for his children,—as he has stopped making coats of skins, 180 I have great respect for the inventors of the spinning- jenny and the sewing machine. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z The spinning jenny was created by James Hargreaves in about 1764. Five ways you never knew the UK changed fashion 2012-09-13T09:33:25Z What a hurry the jenny wren makes—hoping I shall not see her dart into the low bush. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The thread thus spun, however, was still only available for weft, as the jenny could not turn out the yarn hard and firm enough for warp. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z On the other hand Arkwright of the spinning jenny has founded two rich county families. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Betty, bet′ti, n. a man who troubles himself with the women's work in a household: a slang name for a burglar's jemmy or jenny. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Our jenny hit the ground wheels first and bounced dangerously. Test Pilot 2011-09-21T02:00:37.513Z The mule entirely superseded the use of the jenny. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z As its name indicates, it was an ingenious cross between the jenny and the water-frame, combining the best features of both with several novel ones, which rendered it a very valuable machine. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Long jennies to the top pockets are a difficult and pretty stroke: short jennies are into the middle pockets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z I had always liked the mere fact of a ha'penny; the sweetly poetic touch of putting the jenny wren - the smallest British bird - on the smallest coin, the humble farthing. Funny money 2010-04-30T15:00:00Z The thread spun by the jenny could not, however, be used except as weft, being destitute of the firmness or hardness required in the longitudinal threads or warp. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Notwithstanding the advantage in names the mule did more delicate work than the jenny. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The thread spun by Hargreaves' jenny could not be used except as weft, being destitute of the firmness or hardness required in the longitudinal threads or warp. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Everyone knows the creeping jenny, but it is not to be despised for rock-work, especially for filling up odd corners where other things will not thrive. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them He brought his books to the factory, and placing one of them on the ‘jenny,’ with the lesson open before him, he divided his attention between the running of the spindles and rudiments of knowledge. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands James Hargreaves, the inventor of the spinning jenny, suspended the movable comb by passing two cords over pulleys fixed in the ceiling and attached balance weights to opposite ends of the cords. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" It avoided the continuous stretch on the thread of the jenny by first completing the thread and then winding it. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Hargreaves unfortunately was unable to maintain his patent, because he had sold jennies before applying for protection. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" The spinning jenny threw out of employment several thousand spinners in the old way, but in twenty-five years the cloth-makers in England had increased from less than eight thousand to three hundred and twenty thousand. Rural Health and Welfare "There is a certain jenny squaw about her, and that's why the savage likes her," George said—a joke certainly not as brilliant as a firework. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing “Travellers” and “jennies” are, of course, terms of engineering. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) “That and the fly shuttle and the spinning jenny,” the Nigerian said. Ultima Thule Both jennies and mules were known as “wheels,” because they were worked in part by the turning of a wheel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" As the yarn it produced was of a much harder and firmer texture than that spun by the jenny, it was specially suited for warp, but the Lancashire manufacturers declined to make use of it. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The jenny was so unlike Arkwright's frame or Paul's, and preceded that of the former by some years, that its claim to originality can not be questioned. The Story of the Cotton Plant I am going to try the travellers and jennies, and have made a sketch of them and begun the drawing. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Hargreaves, inventor of the jenny, and Sir Richard Arkwright both expended their ingenuity upon it, the latter seeming to have been the first to provide a carding machine operated by other than hand-power. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States The first jenny- and mule-factories were small for this reason, and also because skill in the operative was a matter of fundamental importance,29 as it was not in twist-spinning on the water-frame. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" The thread spun by the jenny was, however, suitable only for weft, and the roving process still required to be performed by hand. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 How far he successfully worked out that idea will be seen if reference be made to the illustration of the jenny which is shown in Fig. The Story of the Cotton Plant It is awful how slowly I draw, and how ill: I am not nearly done with the travellers, and have not thought of the jennies yet. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) The gin and the jenny made cotton cloth much cheaper than it had been. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field The carding machine and the spinning jenny having been invented twenty years before, the power loom completed the machinery necessary to the indefinite extension of the manufacture of cotton. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In this he utilized the principles of the jenny and of the frame, adding drawing-rollers, and thereby making a machine that could draw, stretch, and twist yarn at one operation. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 It would be fatiguing, constant standing in attending to your 'jenny.' Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life But Gilbert does not seem to have heard of him; nor of Hargreaves’ spinning jenny, nor of the inventor of the steam engine. Waiting for Daylight When he grows up he's going to be some sort of a jenny something—I think it's an ologist! Fairy Prince and Other Stories To-day the bogle wags, a thing of jest And open scorn; the very pipits mock it; A jenny wren, I'm told, has built her nest In one torn pocket! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 His chagrin and rage can only be imagined by those who knew him, when, upon this veritable occasion, he saw at least thirty women huddled together, on mares, mules, jacks, jennies, and horses. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive It seems so fine to really earn some of the money which everybody needs so much, just by standing before one of those 'jennies' and doing what little they did. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life When Hargreaves, the Lancashire carpenter, invented his spinning-machine, a village wit called it a "jenny." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Hargreaves's spinning jenny was a big step forward. Carl and the Cotton Gin Yet with this primitive apparatus did the old dame draw out and twist as smooth a thread as ever issued from the “jenny.” The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico In an hour the breeze might entirely die away, and the spinners and weavers would all find their jennies and looms going slower and slower, and finally stopping altogether. Rollo in Holland She was now alone with Mary at her "jenny," and had already become so expert that those who understood such matters prophesied she would soon be promoted to the "twisting and doubling." Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life In 1770 Hargreaves patented his "spinning jenny," and in the following year Arkwright invented his "water frame," a patent spinning machine which derived its name from the fact that it was worked by water power. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles So Arkwright found out all he could by gossiping about Hargreaves's spinning jenny, and no one was quicker to see what such an invention would mean to England than he. Carl and the Cotton Gin Anyhow, anyhow! only end the war and set the cotton jennies spinning! The Long Roll Arkwright, one of the world's greatest mechanics, and the inventor of the spinning jenny, was famed for his unceasing industry. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success He's a pretty tough old bird to think about settin' up house with a nice young jenny wren. The Captain of the Kansas The brightest colours blaze on all sides; and ware of all kinds, from diamonds to spinning jennies and printing presses, are there to be seen. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Arkwright's water frame was better for making the warp and long threads of cloth; and Hargreaves's jenny turned out better weft, or the kind of thread that went from side to side. Carl and the Cotton Gin "He knows what my views are," said jenny. None Other Gods The very first invention, the jenny, worked by one man, produced at least sixfold what the spinning-wheel had yielded in the same time; thus every new jenny threw five spinners out of employment. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Before he died he saw the wheat fields of North Dakota linked with the spinning jennies of Manchester and the docks of Yokohama. History of the United States The spinning jenny, and loom with the flying shuttle, can be managed in a family; but nothing more complicated. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 So of course it wasn't strange that Mrs. Crompton, along with the rest of her neighbors, heard this gossip and also heard about Hargreaves's spinning jenny. Carl and the Cotton Gin It is very certain that for every victim slain by the plague, hundreds of mankind exist and find a fair share of happiness in the world, by the aid of the spinning jenny. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews The throstle, which, in turn, produced much more than the jenny, and like it, was worked by one man, threw still more people out of employment. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 It was then that the daughters of the Puritans, outdone by the competition of foreign labor, both of men and women, left the spinning jenny and the loom to other hands. History of the United States It was also inevitable that the mechanical inventions to which we have already alluded—the steam-engine, the "spinning jenny," and the "mule"—which revolutionised the world's industry, should have their effect in Ireland also. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Now Samuel helped his mother to spin evenings when he wasn't playing at the village theater and she decided it would be nice to get one of these spinning jennies for him to use. Carl and the Cotton Gin Carding and roving were all done by hand labor; and the spinning-frame, with thirty-two spindles, differed little from a common jenny, and was worked by a crank turned by hand. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future The industrial revolution in England, with its spinning jenny and power loom, indirectly influenced the position of the negro in America. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making But we must all be machines: you shall be a steam-engine;—shall be a mill, with extensive water-privileges,—and I will be a spinning jenny. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I George III was reigning in England when Fort Chipewyan was built, Arkwright was making his spinning jenny, and Watts experimenting with the steam-engine. The New North So after his mother got her spinning jenny for him he began to fuss round with it simply to find out whether he could make it any better or not. Carl and the Cotton Gin The jennies are bred before the solstice so that they may have their foals at the same season in the following year, for their period of gestation is twelve months. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro These inventions were the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the power loom, the wool-combing machine, and the cotton gin. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War But trade was fickle, and finding that he could not sell his yarns except at a loss, he made over his jennies to his son-in-law, and again went on with his road-making. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain He even carried on his reading amidst the roar of the factory machinery, so placing the book upon the spinning jenny which he worked that he could catch sentence after sentence as he passed it. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance In 1770, James Hargreaves got a patent on his "spinning jenny." The Story of Mankind Because their young take after their parents, it is important to choose both jack and jenny of good conformation. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro To Hargreaves, inventing the spinning jenny, a mob and a flight from Lancashire, a wrecked machine and a sacked house! Stories from Everybody's Magazine In the evening to M. Lomond, a very ingenious and inventive mechanic, who has made an improvement of the jenny for spinning cotton. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers There was a jenny wren's in the hedge by the orchard. Sons and Lovers The age is commended for Watt's steam engine, Arkwright's spinning jenny, and Whitfield's preaching, but its policy and theories are alike belittled. Thomas Carlyle Outside, on the firmer but still moist soil the creeping jenny mats the ground; and the succulent grasses which attract the cattle to tread the marsh into a muddy paste. The Naturalist on the Thames Cascades of pink ivy-leaf geranium, creeping- jenny, and nasturtiums backed by white or yellow Paris daisies, flowed outward between the white ballusters and masked the edge of the woodwork. The Far Horizon It supplied industrious Germany, not by the perfection of its jennies, but by the industry of its spindle and distaff. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished On the table was a jenny for carding the lace. Sons and Lovers The spinning jenny replaced the spinning wheel, and famine stalked through English villages. Equality When, after she had them in use on the spinning jennies upstairs for a week, she came down bringing them for certain minute alterations, his attitude was one of friendly helpfulness. The Power and the Glory In 1787, however, the Massachusetts legislature voted six tickets in the State Land Lottery to two Scotchmen named Burr to help them build a spinning jenny. A Brief History of the United States His work with it resulted in his invention of the very successful spinning jenny, which was patented about 1770. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III Her jenny spun with a subdued buzz; the white lace hopped from between her fingers on to the card. Sons and Lovers Is jenny capable of such a mounting journey? The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 When Mandy left her, Deanie tried for a time to tend her frames; but the endlessly turning spools, the edges of the jennies, blurred before her fevered eyes. The Power and the Glory What is the cotton gin? the spinning jenny? Community Civics and Rural Life Several jennies were already at work, and their owners received a royalty of one-eighth of the product. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Then she put a new card in her jenny. Sons and Lovers A few years later Crompton combined the roller and the jenny, and after the application of steam to spinning in 1785 the power loom replaced the hand loom. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners "All that Alabama mill wants is to have me go over there and put this trick on their jennies, and if it works they'll give us a royalty of--well, I'll make the bargain." The Power and the Glory Was it more or less fearful that the jenny was not going of itself? that the figure of an old woman sat solemnly turning and turning the hand-wheel? Robert Falconer Crompton, the inventor of the mule jenny, was a working man. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 The little girls spin flax in a primitive way without the aid of a jenny, and the boys, who are, on the whole, much less industrious, make simple bits of wicker-work. Russia We do not treat a fine horse or a sagacious dog exactly as we treat a spinning jenny. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Hargraves, the inventor of the spinning jenny, was a common artisan. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 When he reached the upper floor, he found men with axe and hammer destroying the old woodwork, breaking the old jennies, pitching the balls of lead into baskets, and throwing the spools into crates. Robert Falconer |
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