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See also:HEATHCOAT, See also:JOHN (1783-1860, See also:English inventor, was See also:born at Duffield near See also:Derby on the 7th of See also:August 1783. During his See also:apprenticeship to a framesmith near See also:Loughborough, he made an improvement in the construction of the warp-See also:loom, so as to produce mitts of a See also:lace-like See also:appearance by means of it. He began business on his own See also:account at See also:Nottingham, but finding himself subjected to the intrusion of competing inventors he removed to Hathern. There in 18o8 he constructed a See also:machine capable of producing an exact See also:imitation of real See also:pillow-lace. This was by far the most expensive and complex textile apparatus till then existing; and in describing the See also:process of his invention Heathcoat said in 1836, " The single difficulty of getting the See also:diagonal threads to twist in the allotted space was so See also:great that. if now to be done, I should probably not See also:attempt its accomplishment." Some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time before perfecting his invention, which he patented in 18o9, he removed to Loughborough, where he entered into See also:partnership with See also:Charles See also:Lacy, a Nottingham manufacturer; but in 1816 their factory was attacked by the See also:Luddites and their 55 lace frames destroyed. The See also:damages were assessed in the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Bench at £io,000; but as Heathcoat declined to expend the See also:money in the See also:county of See also:Leicester he never received any See also:part of it. Undaunted by his loss, he began at once to construct new and greatly improved See also:machines in an unoccupied factory at See also:Tiverton, See also:Devon, propelling them by See also:water-See also:power and afterwards by See also:steam. His claim to the gnven
of Stobs, Roxiurghshire, was born on the 25th of See also:December 1717, and educated abroad for the military profession. As a volunteer he fought with the Prussian See also:army in 1735 and 1736, and then entered the See also:Grenadier See also:Guards. He went through the See also:war of the See also:Austrian See also:Succession, and was wounded at See also:Dettingen, rising to be See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in 1754. In 1759 he became colonel of a new See also:regiment of See also:light See also:horse (afterwards the 15th Hussars) and became well known for the efficiency which it displayed in the subsequent See also:campaigns. He became lieutenant-See also:general in 1765. In 1775 he was selected to be See also:governor of See also:Gibraltar (q.v.), and it is in connexion with his magnificent See also:defence in the great See also:siege of 1779 that his name is famous. His portrait by See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds is in the See also:National See also:Gallery. In 1787 he was created See also:Baron See also:Heathfield of Gibraltar, but died on the 6th of See also:July 1790. He had married in 1748 the heiress of the See also:Drake See also:family, to which Sir See also:Francis Drake belonged. His son, the 2nd baron, died in 1813 and the See also:peerage became See also:extinct, but the estates went to the family of Eliott-Drake (baronetcy of 1821) through his See also:sister.
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