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Colophon (sh) and Kay, John (sh)


Colophon (sh)




Ancient Ionian Greek city, western Anatolia.

Located 15 mi (25 km) northwest of the ancient city of Ephesus, it was a flourishing commercial city in the 8th-5th centuries BC, famous for its cavalry, its luxury, and its production of rosin. A member of the Delian League, during the Peloponnesian War it was controlled first by the Persian Achaemenian dynasty and then by Athens, and it was conquered in 302 BC by Macedonia under Alexander the Great. Only a few foundations of the old walled city are now visible.


Kay, John (sh)




born July 16, 1704, near Bury, Lancashire, Eng.
died 1764?, France

British machinist and engineer.

In 1733 he received a patent for a "New Engine or Machine for Opening and Dressing Wool" that incorporated his flying shuttle, an important step toward automatic weaving. Kay's invention so increased yarn consumption that it spurred the invention of spinning machines (including the spinning jenny and spinning mule), but its true importance lay in its adaptation in power looms.