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    MACHINESFACTORIES, AND FACTORY ACTS. 327...

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    r attention emedfor thus such forcibl an evil y drawn . After to t much he sub cog ject itation of find he ing at last me

    a desi clockm gned y a a k er h named ine which Kay assis thoug ting ht would him in have prep tha aring t effec the t ,

    f necessary ailed disp in irited accom apparatus that , plishing they ; but one what , after day , was , in m desired any a fit t , rials of they desperation , finding at last becam y it threw still

    course all their - dre work w on out them of the the garret ridicule window of their into nei the hbours yard . and This Kay of , joining in the laugh , withdrew from shatt the ered g field work ; but , Highs ,

    renewe cons taking tru d cting hear his The t , efforts t first h again e m made achine sing fetched le was , -handed which up but the of , he small and named even size t after uall onl y his succeeded s abou , once daug t a more yard hter in

    wards the Jenny square person . , and troduced who worked next bot exercised onl h by y this six his sp first indles geniu inventor s ; upon but and , a attempting larger by H was argrea to after sp ves in - ,

    by nature machinery or was afraid . Highs to mak was e probabl the success y not he of had a achieved self-asserting very and sold in

    secr public et ; only in a conse few q of uence his machines not only were reaped made but little profit

    b att y ribu his , ted inv t o t ion , bu and t has his name seldom now had is even scarcel the y honour known , that it

    thoug in of H quest arg ht r ion b eaves y . some The having , , derived latter now of , a become w eaver rs further t no iden of tion B tified improvements lackburn of it w from ith , t he t Hi has g m but achine , been and it

    was only obable the author thatas has some often been the case with inven , tions loudl seems y pr called for by , to wants the of the age at the , many minds time were and

    s turnin imilar g their lans attention were therefore s subject imultaneously same conceived , , for there is cer p tainly nothing to prove that Hargreaves' conception

    w he a Acco s no t t rding a la pe tt rfec to t an esided ly anecdote independent some still one current . le in the w nei ere g romp hbourho ing o in

    turned the h w is ro r moment e om a during spinnin when er r the g- the wheel interval , frame at of young preventing which the dinner peop some its hour one rot , was acciden on working from tly being over at

    revolve H su argreaves ddenly for stopped some , gazed tim b at y e friction it , and abstractedl , thus against and kep y , and t the the floor instead turned spindle , it it of continued round in pickin motion g to it it .

    up his lay , when companions uttering it became exclamations who still thoug , again ht quite he unintelli must again be gible lay at ing the with time it as in to

    mere He had idleness been . recentl , In truth y try a ing new the light experiment had flashed p of upon connecting , him . them horizon

    several spindles with the same wheel , but placing -

    Machinesfactories, And Factory Acts. 327...

    MACHINESFACTORIES , AND FACTORY ACTS . 327 ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/39/