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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 coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System".
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Samuel Slater, founder of the American cotton-textile industry. He gained a thorough knowledge of cotton manufacturing while an apprentice in England, and he later settled in the U.S., though British law barred the emigration of textile workers.
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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 coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System".
- Apprenticeship in The Textile Trade
- New Skill to The New World
- Building The Textile Industry
- Further Reading
The Slater farm was located near the river Derwent; the first spinning mill driven by water powerwas built in Cromford on the Derwent in 1771 by Jedediah Strutt and Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the water-frame spinner. In 1776 they dissolved their partnership, and Strutt took over his own mill in Belper, where Slater began his apprenticeship ...
Within a few days of his arrival in New York City, Slater found a position with the New York Manufacturing Company. He was disappointed, however, because the mill was poorly equipped and lacked access to enough water to provide the necessary power for operating spinning machines. He learned that the firm of Almy and Brown operated a machine spinnin...
The mill did not run smoothly at first. There were problems in securing good-quality raw cotton, and often the equipment broke down. More importantly, the shop was unable to produce cotton yarn in sufficient quantities to meet the demand. In 1793 the firm of Almy, Brown, and Slater decided to expand. Picking a site on the Blackstone River, they con...
The most readable, though somewhat subjective, biography of Slater is Edward H. Cameron, Samuel Slater; The Father of American Manufactures (1960). George S. White, Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures (1836; repr. 1967), is a sympathetic contemporary account of Slater's life; it contains numerous primary documents related t...
Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution." More specifically, he founded the American cotton-textile industry.
Samuel Slater (1768-1835), after an apprenticeship by the Arkwrights and Strutts, built the world's first successful water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket in 1790, and Pawtucket was home to a thriving textile industry for the next 150 years.
Drawing on his memory of machinery in his birth country, England, Slater reconstructed the complicated spinning machines when he relocated to the United States, thus playing a key role in launching the American Industrial Revolution.
Oct 5, 2019 · Slater defied the British law against the emigration of textile workers in order to seek his fortune in America. He arrived in New York in 1789 and wrote to Moses Brown of Pawtucket to offer his services as a textile expert.
