 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 432 pages
...he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he shewed to his neighbours, and then destroyed it, through the generous apprehension that he might deprive the poor of bread" — a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he shewed to his neighbours, and then destroyed it, through the generous apprehension that he might deprive the poor of bread" — a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...recorded,' says Mr Uaines, in his History of Lancashire,f ' that, in the year 17/>3, he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he showed to his neighbours, and then destroyed it, through the generous apprehension that he might deprive the poor... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he shewed to his neighbours, and then destroyed it, through the generous apprehension that he might deprive the poor of bread " — a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...Earnshaw, of Mottram, in Cheshire, of whom " it is recorded that, in the year 1753, he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he...apprehension that he might deprive the poor of bread," — a mistake, but a benevolent one. From the year 1767, it appears that Arkwright gave himself up... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1840 - 288 pages
...Earnshaw, of Mottram, in Cheshire, of whom " it is recorded, that in the year 1753, he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he showed to his neighbours, and then destroyed it, through the generous apprehension that he might deprive the poor... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 448 pages
...recorded," says Mr. Baines, in his ' History of Lancashire,' "that, in the year 1753, he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he...apprehension that he might deprive the poor of bread" — a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 448 pages
...recorded," says Mr. Baines, in his ' History of Lancashire,' "that, in the year 1753, he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he...apprehension that he might deprive the poor of bread" — a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1852 - 408 pages
...recorded" says Mr. Baines, in his History of Lancashire, t "that in the year 1753, he invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he showed to his neighbours, and then destroyed it, through the generous apprehension that he might deprive the poor... | |
 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1856 - 554 pages
...have no precise account of it, that an apparatus for spinning was erected. A Mr. Lawrence Earnshaw is recorded to have invented a machine in 1753, to...judgment was mistaken. Richard Arkwright, a barber of England, invented in 1769, the principal part of the machinery for spinning cotton, and by so doing... | |
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... a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright became acquainted with Kay. In... 
