Kay

Examples

• The ideas of Kay, Wyatt and Hargreaves are said to have been anticipated in Italy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• After 40 Centuries of Hand-Weaving Comes John Kay, of England, 1733. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was not a skilled mechanic himself, and so, when he decided to take up the subject, he employed a clockmaker, named Kay, to help him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1760 Robert Kay invented the drop box, by which different shuttles carrying different colors of thread were employed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• After forty centuries of unchanged life, it occurred to John Kay of Bury, England, that the weaving process might be improved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Kay and Arkwright constructed a working model, and on this Arkwright by hard pushing and hard work obtained capital, and improved, completed and patented his machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• About 1764 a little accident occurring in the home of James Hargreaves, an English weaver of Blackburn, suggested to that observant person an invention that was as important as that of Kay. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At the same time that Kay was struggling with his invention of the flying shuttle, another poor man, but with less success, had conceived another idea, as to spinning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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