arkwright

To obtain capital for expansion, Arkwright formed a partnership with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need, wealthy nonconformist hosiery manufacturers.

If he had been successful in his mission to kill the ancestors of Richard Arkwright then it might have been put off for several generations!

> To obtain capital for expansion, Arkwright formed a partnership with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need, wealthy nonconformist hosiery manufacturers.

I left out the construction costs, the Arkwright Summit farm, $125 million.

My understanding is that real industrialization got started with things like the Arkwright water frame, and then the steam engine allowed factories to spread to more convenient locations.

> Arkwright and John Smalley of Preston set up a small horse-driven factory at Nottingham.

I mean, interesting, but after reading the first link I found this pretty good rebuttal: So it is odd to hear today that America stole secrets from Arkwright when Arkwright himself was claiming that he had disclosed the machines in his patent specifications to a degree sufficient to make and use them.

* Richard Arkwright (1730s-1790s) - developer of the spinning frame and pioneer of the industrial revolution - was the son of a tailor (although he died a Queen's knight).

I mean, Britain has many great technologists if you're willing to count the likes of Arkwright (died 1792), Babbage (died 1871), Watt (died 1819), Faraday (died 1867), Randall (died 1984), Bell (died 1922), Harrison (died 1776), Logie Baird (died 1946), Stephenson (died 1848) etc But some would say if a country's list of technology greats has so many dead people on it, perhaps that country's glory days are over.

Or as Arkwright always said "just j-j-jiggle it a bit".

One of these artisans was Samuel Slater, often called “the father of the American industrial revolution.” He emigrated here in 1789, posing as a farmhand and bringing with him an intimate knowledge of the Arkwright spinning frames that had transformed textile production in England, and he set up the first water-powered textile mill in the U.

Arkwright will let you do all of this from a clean and simple IDE, without months of onboarding.

See: Samuel Slater sneaking out of Britain to Rhode Island after memorizing the construction details of Arkwright's water frame.

Fifty thousand workpeople, who had previously lived by carding wool, petitioned Parliament against Arkwright's scribbling mills and carding engines.