The company says that current production rates see one backhoe machine roll off one of its manufacturing lines every three minutes.

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Whirlpool has done just that, transferring a high-end washing machine production facility from France.

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In 1764, English carpenter James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, a machine that spun multiple threads of yarn at once, increasing production eight-fold.

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