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John Kay (spinning frame)

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John Kay (dates unknown) was a clockmaker from Warrington, Cheshire, England. He is known by association with Richard Arkwright, and is the inventor of the spinning frame in 1767—an important stage in the development of the textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution.