Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 309
the leading data of this sketch are derived.This memoir is written in a bold and manly spirit, befitting the sub-ject which it so eloquently rescues from neglect. It is the substanceof two papers read to the members of the Bolton Mechanics Institu-tion by Mr. French, who has generously placed at… … The IIall-in-the-Wood, near Bolton. THE HALL-IN-THE-WOOD, NEAR BOLTON. 305 greaves invented the Jenny (see page 296). And twoyears afterward, when only sixteen years of age, SamuelCrompton spun on one of these machines, with eightspindles, the yarn which he afterward wove into quilt-ing; and thus…
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