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John Lees (inventor), the Glossary

John Lees of Turf Lane, Royton, Lancashire was an English inventor who made a substantial improvement to machinery for carding cotton.^[1]

11 relations: Carding, Cotton, Cotton mill, Greenacres, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Machine, Oldham, Patent, Richard Arkwright, Royton, Water frame.
People from Royton

Carding

Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. John Lees (inventor) and Carding are spinning.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cotton mill

A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. John Lees (inventor) and cotton mill are spinning.

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Greenacres, Greater Manchester

Greenacres, archaically Greenacres Moor, is an area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Machine

A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.

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Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, it lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. John Lees (inventor) and Richard Arkwright are English inventors and People of the Industrial Revolution.

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