page_title: John Kay (flying shuttle)
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: John Kay (flying shuttle) / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail on the John Kay Memorial, Bury. Bronze medal portrait and bronze plaque inscription. "The gift of Henry Whitehead of Haslem Hey to his native town to perpetuate the name and fame of JOHN KAY of Bury"
context_page_description: John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake, who built the first "spinning frame".
context_section_description: In Bury, Kay has become a local hero: there are still several pubs named after him, as are the Kay Gardens. Bury town centre has William Venn Gough's 1908 Memorial to John Kay (sculpture by John Cassidy). Planning began after a 1903 Bury public meeting launched a public subscription. 19th century efforts to acknowledge Kay achieved little, but by 1903 it was felt that Bury "owed John Kay's memory an atonement", and that all Bury should contribute in restitution to "that wonderfully ingenious and martyred man".
  John Kay's son, Robert, stayed in Britain, and in 1760 developed the "drop-box", which enabled looms to use multiple flying shuttles simultaneously, allowing multicolour wefts.
  His son John ("French Kay") had long resided with his father in France. In 1782 he provided an account of his father's troubles to Richard Arkwright, who sought to highlight problems with patent defence in a parliamentary petition.
  Ford Madox Brown portrayed Kay and his invention in a mural painting in Manchester Town Hall.
caption: Portrait inscription on the John Kay Memorial
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