John Wyatt (? – 1766), an English inventor, was born near Lichfield and was related to Sarah Ford, Doctor Johnson's mother. A carpenter by trade he began work in Birmingham on the development of a spinning machine. In 1733 he was working in the mill at New Forge (Powells) Pool, Sutton Coldfield attempting to spin the first cotton thread ever spun by mechanical means. 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ... Statistics Population: 27,900 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SK115097 Administration District: Lichfield Shire county: Staffordshire Region: West Midlands Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Staffordshire Historic county: Staffordshire Services Police force: Staffordshire Police Ambulance service: Staffordshire Post office and telephone Post town: LICHFIELD Postal district... Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... Yarn coils for industrial use Spinning is the process of creating yarn (or thread, rope, cable) from various raw fiber materials. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... Map sources for Sutton Coldfield at grid reference SP1395 Sutton Coldfield constituency shown within Birmingham Sutton Coldfield is a part of the City of Birmingham, England. ... Cotton ready for harvest. ...

His principal partner was Lewis Paul (who was sponsored by the Duke of Shrewsbury) and together they developed the concept of elongating cotton threads by running them through rollers and then stretching them through a faster second set of rollers. They produced the first ever roller spinning machine but it was not successful. Paul took out patents in 1738 and in 1758, the year before he died. The Earl of Shrewsbury is the senior Earl on the Roll in the Peerage of England (the more senior Earldom of Arundel being held by the Duke of Norfolk). ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and...

Wyatt went to work for Matthew Boulton in his foundry in Birmingham. There he invented and produced a weighing machine and experimented with donkey power to run his spinning machine. He was brought down by his debts and was made bankrupt. Matthew Boulton. ...

Despite their failures, their ideas laid the foundations for others who followed, particularly Sir Richard Arkwright. Richard Arkwright Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an Englishman credited with the spinning frame — later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power. ...