Daniel Bourn was an English inventor, who took out a patent for a carding machine with rotating cylinders in 1748.[1]

Though Bourn is thought likely to have had some association with Lancashire, at the time he received the patent he owned a Paul-Wyatt cotton-spinning mill at Leominster in Herefordshire.[2]

References

  1. ^ Lance Day, ed. (2003). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. Ian McNeil. Taylor & Francis. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-203-02829-2. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  2. ^ Alfred P. Wadsworth; Julia de Lacy Mann (1931). The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780. Manchester University Press. pp. 441–. Retrieved 18 September 2012.


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