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John Kay, inventor of the 'Flying Shuttle', held in his hands, the first flutterings of what would become, the Industrial Revolution.

John Kay was a man whose unabridged immature life had been exposed to the woolen manufacture. He knew the problems and the pitfalls of mechanization but could see the great need for advocacy in the industry.

And then what about John Kay and the Flying Shuttle?

He was born in Bury in Lancashire in 1704, the son of a woolen manufacturer. He became manager of one of his father'south mills and soon developed skills as a machinist and engineer, modifying machines as necessary. In 1733 he patented the 'New engine for opening and dressing wool', this car included the famous 'flying shuttle'.

John Kay

The flight shuttle was a simple device that had huge bear upon

The shuttle was only one part of a textile loom but it was the role that had to be physically thrown backwards and forwards by the weaver as it carries the weft through the warp. John Kay'due south shuttle was shot out of a box, backwards and forrad, carrying the weft without the weaver having to come into contact with the shuttle at all.

It had an enormous impact on the woolen industry. The owners loved information technology because it sped up the process and they could reduce the number of people they employed. The workers were impoverished by information technology. John Kay was the subject of many personal attacks upon himself as he struggled for financial and literal survival. Find out more about this aspect of John Kay'due south life hither.

For John Kay himself it brought misery. Manufacturers refused to pay him royalties on his invention and so he took his looms to France, here alas, they were not overly impressed by John Kay's invention and he had to negotiate hard with the French government to get them to purchase his technology.

John Kay inappreciably ever returned to England subsequently 1756 becoming domiciled with his family unit in France.

The Flying Shuttle

John Kay and the flight shuttle sped upwards the production of textile and so much that spun yarn was hard to come up by.

Inventions beget inventions and so it was with the flight shuttle, the 'spinning jenny' was born out of the necessity to produce more than thread and so the Industrial Revolution kept revolving. John Kay died in 1779, still fighting for the money he was owed by manufacturers and governments akin.

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