Invention of "Stretchers" used in cotton spinning

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Joseph Tootel of Mansfield

According to the book A Visit to Sherwood Forest (Anon.) (Mansfield: Collinson, 1850, p.24), Joseph Tootel, a worker at the Rock Valley Mills in Mansfield, invented "the fluted or Grooved rollers used in cotton spinning, and now known by the name of 'stretchers'".

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