जिस संपत्ति को कोई दूसरा व्यक्ति अपनी नजरों से ही समेटकर ले जा सके, उस पर किसी इंसान का अधिकार बहुत कम समय के लिए ही टिक पाता है। कुछ ही महीनों ने मुझे इस क्रूर मजबूरी में ला खड़ा किया कि या तो मैं अपनी मशीन को नष्ट कर दूँ या उसे जनता को सौंप दूँ। इसे नष्ट करना तो मैं सोच भी नहीं सकता था; और जिसके लिए मैंने इतनी लंबी मेहनत की थी, उसे यूँ ही छोड़ देना बहुत दर्दनाक था। मेरे पास न तो पेटेंट था और न ही उसे खरीदने के साधन। मशीन को नष्ट करने के बजाय, मैंने उसे जनता को सौंप दिया।
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
स्पिनिंग मूक (कताई मशीन) का शुरुआती विकास कताई के और अधिक सटीक सिद्धांत को साकार करने का एक निरंतर प्रयास था; और हालाँकि कई बार मुझे असफलता मिली, पर मैंने उतनी ही बार फिर से कोशिश की, और आखिरकार अपनी दुनिया भर की सारी पूंजी दांव पर लगाकर, अपनी इच्छा के मुताबिक पूरी सफलता हासिल कर ली।
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.