This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he learnt ...

The eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books.

This is where the revolution in the production of cotton began. Arkwright invented the spinning frame also known as the water frame in 1768. Spinnning frames This could produce stronger threads for ...

On Jan. 1, 1790, Moses Brown, Samuel Slater, Pliny Earle and Eli Whitney probably had no idea that they were going to bring the Industrial Revolution to America. At that point they had not even met.

IN 1750, Richard Arkwright, an 18-year-old apprentice barber, came to work in Bolton at the shop of Edmund Pollit. On the face of it, young Richard didn't have much going for him. He was the 13th of ...

Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill in 1771 A campaign has been launched to raise £100,000 for a statue to commemorate an entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution who was born in ...

Historians in Belper have been unsuccessful in finding Slater’s name on passenger lists of the time. Perhaps he travelled under another name to avoid detection? On arriving in New York, Slater was ...