History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
Edward Baines
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Aware of the value of the invention, but not extending his ambition to a patent, he kept it as secret as possible for a time, and used it merely in his own business. A machine of such powers could not, however, be long concealed; but when it became the subject of rumour, instead of gaining for its author admiration and gratitude, the spinners raised an outcry that it would throw multitudes out of employment, and a mob broke into Hargreaves\s house, and destroyed his jenny. So great was the pers...ecution he suffered, and the danger in which he was placed, that this victim of popular ignorance was compelled to flee his native county, as the inventor of the fly-shuttle had been before liim. Thus the neighbourhood where the machine was invented, lost the benefit of it, yet without preventing its general adoption ; the common and appropriate punishment of the ignorance and selfishness which oppose mechanical improvements. Hargreaves retired to Nottingham in 1768, where he entered into partnership with Mr.
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