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to any inventor who could devise the best machinery for the spinning of flax yarn. After only a short period
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complaining about this and pointing out he had been the inventor. A court invalidated Kay's patent in 1839, stating it was too similar to Horace Hall's, a decision upheld on appeal in 1841. The fact that
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was initially credited with the invention. Although, on
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