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  2. Waltham-Lowell system - Wikipedia

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    The precursor to the Waltham-Lowell system was used in Rhode Island, where British immigrant Samuel Slater set up his first spinning mills in 1793 under the sponsorship of Moses Brown. Slater drew on his British mill experience to create a factory system called the "Rhode Island System", based on the customary patterns of family life in New ...

  3. Samuel Slater - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution", a phrase ...

  4. The Rhode Island System - Wikipedia

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    The Rhode Island System [1] refers to a system of mills, complete with small villages and farms, ponds, dams, and spillways first developed by Samuel Slater (who had earlier built the first fully functional water-powered textile mill in America at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1790) and his brother John Slater.

  5. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution in the United States was advanced by the immigration of Samuel Slater from Great Britain and arrival of textile mills beginning in Lowell, Massachusetts. In the south, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney radically increased the value of slave labor.

  6. Samuel Slater was an industrialist who is widely credited with helping create the American factory system and is a major figure in the Industrial Revolution. Slater was an apprentice at a textile ...

  7. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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    The technology and information on how to build a textile industry were largely provided by Samuel Slater (1768–1835) who emigrated to New England in 1789. He had studied and worked in British textile mills for a number of years and immigrated to the United States, despite restrictions against it, to try his luck with U.S. manufacturers who ...

  8. American system of manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    The American system of manufacturing was a set of manufacturing methods that evolved in the 19th century. [1] The two notable features were the extensive use of interchangeable parts and mechanization for production, which resulted in more efficient use of labor compared to hand methods.

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