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John Kay Comes into the world
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invents metal substitue for reed
invents and sells his metal for natural reed across England -
John Kay get's maried
John Kay marries a Bury women Anne Holte. His brother, William, also married Bury women. -
First child
John has his first child, Miss Lettice -
It's a boy
John Kay second child, Mr Robert was born. His son would later make the "Drop Box" a very important part of the loom. -
John Kay patents his Flying Shuttle
The Flying Shuttle meant that a weaver could now weave much wider fabrics, and it also was mechanised for automatic machine looms. -
The Flying Shuttle gets sold to Paris
Kay negotiated with Paris trying to get them to buy his flying shuttle, after a lot of discussionss they agreed to 3,000 lives and a pension of 2,500 livre annually starting in 1749 -
The Flying Shuttle in France.
In France, they did adopt the flying shuttle's new way of weaving, though most of the machines were copies of Kays. -
Mob attack
n 1753 Kay's house in Bury was ransacked by a mob of textile workers who feared that his machines would destroy their livelihood -
"Drop Box" was invented
Kay's Son, Robert invented the "DropBox" which allowed looms to use multiple shuttles. it also allowed multicolour weaves. -
Partnership begins
John Kay and Colchester started a partnership in manufacturing for the flying shuttle -
john kay patents a new machine with Joseph Stell
Kay and Joseph Stell invent a new machine for cloth ribbon weaving. They got this machine patened, but they had to cancel their plans with this new machine due to kay's legal cost. -
John Kay dies
