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Encyclopedia > Thomas Highs
A drawing of Thomas Highs' spinning jenny, taken from Edward Baines's History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
A drawing of Thomas Highs' spinning jenny, taken from Edward Baines's History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain

Thomas Highs (1718 – 1803) was a talented English reed-maker and inventor known for his creation of the spinning jenny, the throstle (a machine for the continuous twisting and winding of wool), and the water frame during the Industrial Revolution. For most of his early life he lived in Leigh, Lancashire, where he married Sarah Moss at the Leigh Parish Church on 23 February 1747. Five years after his marriage, he became interested in cotton-spinning machinery and started to experiment with Lewis Paul and John Wyatt's (of Birmingham) drafting rollers which he would later try to perfect with the help of John Kay, a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire.[1] Image File history File links Thomashighsjenny. ... Image File history File links Thomashighsjenny. ... Edward Baines (1774-1848), English newspaper-proprietor and politician, was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire. ... // The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... For other uses, see Inventor (disambiguation). ... Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, Germany The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. ... Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, Arizona Wool is the fiber derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats, alpacas, llamas and rabbits may also... The water frame is an extension of the spinning frame; both of which are credited to Richard Arkwright. ... A Watt steam engine. ... Leigh is a town in Greater Manchester, in north west England. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... COTTON-SPINNING MACHINERY: Eventually the hand mule became a machine in which most of the work was done automatically; the spinner being chiefly required, to regulate the velocity of the backing off, and the inward run of the carriage, and to actuate the fallers. ... Lewis Paul (d. ... John Wyatt (? – 1766), an English inventor, was born near Lichfield and was related to Sarah Ford, Doctor Johnsons mother. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... John Kay was a homo in the 1790s he created the man dildo. ... A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs clocks. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...


After labouring for a few months, John Kay eventually left the project while Highs continued to work on the machine. He later rebuilt it as a new device and dubbed it the "spinning jenny", possibly after his daughter Jane according to his neighbour, Thomas Leather. Even so, Highs never finished the spinning jenny and left it with James Hargreaves and his assistant John Kay (the same John Kay that had worked with Highs earlier on his life) so that he could return to working on the drafting rollers.[2] James Hargreaves (1720 – 22 April 1778) was a weaver, carpenter, and an inventor in Lancashire, England. ...


While Hargreaves worked on the spinning jenny, Highs was finishing up a new invention of his, the water frame. After he completed the water frame, he gave it to John Kay so that Kay could make a metal version of it. As Kay worked on it, he met Richard Arkwright, a wig-maker at the time. 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. ...


Highs was not credited for his inventions during his lifetime due to his lack of both entrepreneurial skills and funding to patent the inventions. Instead, Richard Arkwright discovered the design secrets of both devices from John Kay and patented them without Highs' recognition. Arkwright later developed a substantial fortune and reputation in the cotton industry from Highs' inventions, while Highs lived the rest of his life in obscurity before he died in 1803.[3] 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. ... Cotton ready for harvest. ...


References

  1. ^ The Unsung Thomas Highs. Cotton Times. Retrieved on September 3, 2006.
  2. ^ Making History, programme 10. BBC. Retrieved on 29 October 2006.
  3. ^ Rise of the factory system: Richard Arkwright. Making the Modern World. Retrieved on September 3, 2006.
The Industrial Revolution
Themes Coal, Coal mining, Coke, Cotton, Industry, Invention, Iron, Machinery, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Sociology, Steam power, Steel, Technology, Textiles, Water power, Workforce
People/
groups		 Richard Arkwright, Thomas Boulsover, Matthew Boulton, James Brindley, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Edmund Cartwright, Henry Cort, Thomas and George Cranege, Samuel Crompton, Abraham Darby I, Abraham Darby II, Abraham Darby III, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, William Fairbairn, James Hargreaves, Thomas Highs, Eaton Hodgkinson, Benjamin Huntsman, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Thomas Johnson (dressing frame), John Kay (flying shuttle), John Kay (spinning frame), Francis Cabot Lowell, Lunar Society, Thomas Newcomen, Robert Owen, Lewis Paul, William Radcliffe, Richard Roberts, Thomas Savery, John Smeaton, George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, James Watt, John Wilkinson, John Wyatt
Places Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Bridgewater Canal, Coalbrookdale, Cromford, Derwent Valley Mills, Ironbridge, New Lanark, Portsmouth Block Mills, Quarry Bank Mill, Soho Foundry, Stockton and Darlington Railway
Invention/
technology		 Blast furnace, Canal, Cotton mill, Crucible steel, Dressing frame, Factory, Flying shuttle, Newcomen steam engine, Power loom, Railway, Reverberatory furnace, Sheffield plate, Spinning frame, Spinning jenny, Steam engine, Stephenson's Rocket, Water frame, Watt steam engine
Social impact Bourgeoisie, Child labour, History of the Co-operative Movement, Cottage industry, Factory Acts, Industrial unrest, Luddite, Proletariat, Rochdale Pioneers
Reference History of technology, History of the British canal system, Industrial archaeology, List of United Kingdom-related topics, Timeline of clothing and textiles technology, Timeline of invention, Timeline of materials technology, Timeline of steam power

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Thomas Highs - inventor (2158 words)
Thomas Highs - the name was probably Heyes, misspelled by the registrar - was born in Leigh, Lancashire, in 1718, and little is known about his life until he married local girl Sarah Moss, at Leigh Parish Church on February 23rd, 1747.
Sources agree that Highs was a talented reedmaker - a reed was a comb-like metal strip attached to the batten of a loom, which kept the warp threads apart and helped the weaver to pack the weft threads tight on the newly-woven cloth.
Highs probably realised very quickly that the intricate mechanics required to make drafting rollers work were beyond his means and abilities at this stage, and he began to look for a quicker fix.
Lancashire Inventors && Engineers John Mercer, Professor Eric Laithwaite, Thomas Highs, Robert Hope-Jones, Eric ... (1651 words)
Born in Leigh, Lancashire in 1718, Thomas Highs, (the name was probably Heyes, misspelled by the registrar), is one of the lesser known inventors of the Industrial Revolution.
Similarly, High's Water Frame was later built by John Kay and Richard Arkwright.
Highs was by all accounts a humble man, unambitious and without the drive to acquire patronage for his inventions, a fact that prevented him from either reaping his just rewards or from establishing the fame and respect which he deserved.
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