Daniel Bourn Explained

Daniel Bourn was an English inventor, who took out a patent for a carding machine with rotating cylinders in 1748.^[1]

Though Bourn is thought likely to have had some association with Lancashire, at the time he received the patent he owned a Paul-Wyatt cotton-spinning mill at Leominster in Herefordshire.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Lance Day. Ian McNeil. Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. 18 September 2012. 2003. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-203-02829-2. 156.
2. Book: Alfred P. Wadsworth. Julia de Lacy Mann. Julia de Lacy Mann. The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780. 18 September 2012. 1931. Manchester University Press. 441–.