Nottingham
['nɔtiŋəm]
Examples
- Hargreaves fled to Nottingham, where works were soon started with his spinning jennys. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hargreaves was driven from Lancashire to Nottingham, and many of his larger jennies were broken by mobs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Wright, Nottingham bankers, but these bankers, figuring on the experience that had befallen the inventors of other spinning machines, soon withdrew their aid. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The first engine so employed was installed in a cotton mill in Nottingham in 1785. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The King set up his standard at Nottingham on the eve of a dark and stormy August day in 1642. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The machine was first used by him in a mill erected at Nottingham and worked by horses; then at Cromford, and in this mill the power used to drive the spinning machine was a water wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nottingham is one of their headquarters, Manchester another, Birmingham a third. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had rooms in Nottingham, because his work lay chiefly in that town. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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