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Blackburn
A manufacturing town in Lancashire, 21 m. NW. of Manchester, a centre of the cotton industry, and the greatest in the world; is the birthplace of Hargreaves, the inventor of the spinning-jenny.
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- Category: Encyclopedias
- Organization: Project Gutenberg
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