The greatest invention ever? Maybe. But the most damaging too? Probably.

IN the mid-18th century, or so the story goes, a worker in a cotton factory in the north of England called Jenny accidentally knocked over her spinning wheel. Looking on, her boss, James Hargreaves, noticed that the device kept working as normal, with the …
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