At 2:10 PM +0800 11/16/00, Laurence Horn wrote: >If your scoring at home, the spinning jenny was patented by >Hargreaves in 1770, the cotton gin in 1796. > Arggh. Due to a glitch in my keyboard, which is in rhoticity recovery, an apostrophe before an R and an E after it mysteriously cancel each other out. Must be this damn chadless punch. larry