Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Tillingham · leaf 85
gave him the hint which he needed.He went to work and made a spinning-frame,with eight spindles and a horizontal wheel.This machine he called after his wife (Jenny)the ^^spinning-jenny. But no sooner hadhis invention become known to the neighbor-ing spinners, than Hargreaves was assailedby a storm… … THE INVENTORS OF COTTON-MACHINERY 75 The rest of his life, like that of Kay beforehim, was a dreary yet patient struggle againststarvation ; and he^, too, died unacknowledged,poor, an outcast, his invention having provedthe greatest misfortune of his life. One of the most prosperous and busy…
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