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John Kay Biography Essay

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Flying shuttle Have you guys ever been doing something that felt like it was taking forever? Don't you wish that there was a way that you could finish whatever you doing faster? Like when you're doing a project, wouldn't you want to just put everything together in a couple of minutes instead couple of hours. Things would be easier right... we would stress less about not having enough time to do whatever we're doing . Well John Kay thought the same thing when he came up with invention of the flying shuttle. According to the name you'd think it'd be some type of plane, train, or even a ship, but no the flying shuttle isn't what you thought it was. It's made to weave much wider fabrics in a shorter amount of time then it usually took. He wanted there to be a faster way to weave a lot of wider fabrics quicker instead of it taking a long time, this invention sped up the process of it …show more content…

Let’s get started talking more about my friend John Kay here. He was born on June 17th in 1704, his father and mother were Robert & Ellin Kay. Sadly John’s father died before he was even born so the park house was left to the oldest sibling. To be honest that sounds terrible but it shows that a single parent can be independent and strong on their own, I mean Ellin did it and also women today. As long as you stay strong you can be independent. Okay so the flying shuttle greatly speeded up the process of weaving. This made cloth that had more width than it had before. While someone was using the flying shuttle just needed one operated for it to work. But that was after John Kay did a couple of improvements before it needed one person for it to be usable. Before it was named the flying shuttle it was called the “wheeled shuttle”, other people called it the the “fly-shuttle” because of the speed it had. The flying shuttle was made of a reed structure, wires and dents, wooden ribs, and also tarred cord. In about July 1733 John kay teamed up with Essex Colchester to officially

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