William Lee (inventor)

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William Lee (* around 1563 in Calverton , Nottinghamshire ; † 1614 ) was an English clergyman and inventor of the hand ball chair .

Life

From 1579 on he studied at Christ's College (Cambridge) . In 1582 he graduated from St John's College (Cambridge) . He was then a curate in Calverton.

He married as a student. Since his office as a preacher brought little, his wife had to earn money with stocking ropes. Lee pondered a machine that would knit faster and had the idea of ​​bending the needle points into a tiny hook. In 1589 he was able to demonstrate the first well-functioning hand-held rolling chair for stocking knitting, which worked six times faster than the hand. However, he was denied a patent, even for an improved version.

In June 1600 he partnered with George Brooks, who was executed shortly afterwards. Lee then went to France with his brother James, where he was granted a patent under Henry IV . He started a hosiery manufacture in Rouen . In 1610 he entered into a partnership with the cloth merchant Pierre de Caux (who was possibly a brother of Salomon de Caus ) from the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Ronde. After Heinrich's death in 1610, his patent was disregarded. William Lee died in despair. His brother then settled near Nottingham.

See also

Weft knitting machine

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeno: Lexicon entry on "warp-knitting (1)". Lueger, Otto: Lexicon of the entire technology and ... Retrieved on December 10, 2018 .
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SURNAME Lee, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English clergyman and inventor of the hand ball chair
DATE OF BIRTH around 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH Calverton , Nottinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH 1614