John Kay was an English inventor who lived from 1704 to about 1779 and whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He was born in the Lancashire hamlet of Walmersley, just north of Bury, and he apprenticed with a hand-loom reed maker, then designed a metal substitute for the natural reed that proved popular enough for him to sell throughout England. In 1730 he patented a cording and twisting machine for worsted, and in 1733 he received a patent for the wheeled shuttle for the hand loom.
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John Kay (17 June 1704, c. 1779) was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution.
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whose most important creation was the flying shuttle
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1779) was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution.
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The brainchild of John Kay, the flying shuttle received a patent in the year 1733 during the Industrial Revolution.
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