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| | Lewis Paul |
 | | The patent for the invention was taken out, in the year 1738, in the name of Lewis Paul, with whom Mr. |
 | | This patent proves, beyond all possible doubt, that the mode of spinning by rollers was invented more than thirty years before Arkwright took out his patent for a similar machine, which was not till 1769. |
 | | Lewis Paul, which terminated unhappily; for Paul, a foreigner, made offers and bargains which he never fulfilled, and contrived, in the year 1738, to have a patent taken out in his own name for some additional apparatus. |
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