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Inventors (1896)

Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 115

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, whofeared that it would deprive them of a living.Kay was mobbed in Lancashire when he tried tointroduce his fly-shuttle ; Hargreaves had hisspinning-frame destroyed by a Blackburn mob;Crampton had to hide his spinning-mule in alumber-room for fear of a similar fate ; Arkwright,the inventor of the… … Elias Howe, ELI AS HOWE 101 was first put into operation ; Cartwright had toabandon his power-loom for years because ofthe bitter animosity of the weavers toward it.Riots were organized in Nottingham againstthe use of the stocking-loom. It is not therefore surprising that the greatestlabor-saving…

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