Isaac Holden
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Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet was an inventor and manufacturer, who is known both for his work in developing the Square Motion wool-combing machine and as a Radical Liberal Member of Parliament.
Holden in 1868, painted by Samuel Sidley
Holden comb
Combing machine at Bradford Industrial Museum
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, was an English inventor and industrialist, notable for inventing the Lister nip comb.
Isaac Holden
…1846 to set up a factory making Paisley shawl middles at Pit Lane in Bradford. When the business failed two years later he formed a partnership with Samuel Lister. They worked together to develop the square motion wool-combing machine, which was patented by Lister in 1848, although Holden had drafted the patent…
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham, with a model of one of his inventions, 1901 portrait by John Collier
Lister's Mill
Lister nip comb in Bradford Industrial Museum
Memorial plaque of Samuel Lister and family