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  • Book: Lord . J. de L. . https://books.google.com/books?id=zAEPAAAAQAAJ&pg=121 . xix . (However, the Bury town meeting called to honour John Kay in 1903 noted that the biblical shuttle was still in use at that time in India, where two people often still worked a single loom —though mill production was flourishing there.)
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  • Book: Wadsworth .

    He continued to improve his design.

    Kay found it difficult to collect royalties from weavers. 978-1-150-68477-7 .

  • Lord (1903) p. After him are Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Neil Gaiman (1960), Robert Stirling (1790), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Duncan Haldane (1951), and Thomas Chatterton (1752).

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    • Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

    Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Kay ranks 22.

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  • Book: Cotton . As an inventor Kay was a genius of the first rank, but he was vain, obstinate and suspicious and was destitute of business qualities. .
  • Barlow (1878) p.97
  • Lord (1903) p.82
  • Mann (1931) p.456
  • Mantoux (1928) says that the shuttle appears in some districts much later, and violence against the 'engine weavers' was continuing in 1760s London (pg.208).

    James Clegg . 132 . G. D. . See: Book: Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology . (This article also explores the archives of the Royal Society of Arts and their dealings with John Kay.)

    • John Kay (1704–80)

    The brilliant inventor John Kay was one of the most significant figures of the early Industrial Revolution.