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of Glasgow.
Cotton spinner
1797 A Mr Snodgrass of Glasgow invented the opener and scrutcher for the cleaning of cotton [1] and first used by Houston and Co at Johnston, near Paisley
c1829 The Cigar steamboat was designed and built by him
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