John Kay (spinning Frame)
John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England known for the scandal associated with the invention of the spinning frame in 1767: an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution (he constructed the first known frame, and is one of the claimants to having been its inventor). He is sometimes confused with the unrelated John Kay who invented the flying shuttle thirty years earlier.
Read more about John Kay (spinning Frame): John Kay and Thomas Highs, John Kay and Richard Arkwright, Later Developments
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