Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Slater constructed a new mill in 1793 for the sole purpose of textile manufacture under Almy, Brown & Slater, as he was now partners with Almy and Brown. It was a 72-spindle mill; the patenting of Eli Whitney 's cotton gin in 1794 reduced the labor in processing short-staple cotton.
The Slater family is an American philanthropic, political, and manufacturing family from England, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut whose members include the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," Samuel Slater, a prominent textile tycoon who founded America's first textile mill, Slater Mill (1790), and with his brother John Slater founded Slatersville, Rhode Island in ...
The Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It is the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America to use the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright .
Submitted opinion column: Scott Molloy is a University of Rhode Island professor emeritus and founder of the R.I. Labor History Society.
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 ...
Slater Mill. 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 ...
Tucker, Barbara M. Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790–1860 (1984) Williams, Mike; Farnie, Douglas Anthony (1992), Cotton Mills of Greater Manchester, Carnegie Publishing, ISBN 0948789697
Slater Mill, Pawtucket. The first successful textile mill in the United States was Slater Mill, established by Samuel Slater in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1793. With its significant historic value, the drive to restore Slater Mill into a public museum began during the mid-20th century.