biography
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| lived:
| (1783–1861)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Duffield, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He designed a machine for making lace (patented in 1809), and set up a factory in Nottingham which was destroyed in 1816 by the Luddites. He then moved his business to Tiverton in Devon, installing greatly improved machines. He also invented machinery to make ribbon and net, and devised methods of winding raw silk from cocoons. He later became MP for Tiverton (1832–59). |
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