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Image that the year is 1776 and that you are a worker in the Helmshore Textile Mill that employs about fifty workers. The production of textiles in your mill requires some special skills and a lot of manual work. Because of the requisite skills and manpower involved, the production is not high enough to obtain profits. However, with the installation of a new hand-powered machine, the production seems to have increase significantly.

Identify the machine and also the year in which it was invented.

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Machine - Spinning Mule
Year - 1764
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Machine - Spinning Mule
Year - 1774
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Machine - Spinning Jenny
Year - 1764
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Machine - Spinning Jenny
Year - 1774
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The correct option is C Machine - Spinning Jenny
Year - 1764
The spinning jenny was an early, multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton. The hand-powered spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 and patented in 1770. The development of the spinning wheel into the spinning jenny was a significant factor in the industrialisation of the textile industry, though its product was inferior to that of Richard Arkwright’s water frame.

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