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A video explaining Samuel Slater's life and accomplishments. Created by Zachary Gordon-Burns.
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Samuel Slater, a mill worker from England, borrows technology that spurs the textile industry in America.
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Webster's new Samuel Slater Experience recreates the town's Main Street from 1910 & explains the birth of the Industrial Revolution as you experience Slater's 1789 arrival in America & his...
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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".
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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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.
