of the development of Manchester's first steam-powered cotton mill.Keywords: Richard Arkwright,Manchester,steam power,cotton millAdditional informationAuthor informationIan MillerIan Miller is Assistant Director with Salford Archaeology within the Centre for Applied Archaeology at the University of Salford. ...
Richard Arkwright did not only made cotton one of the main Britain's exports but he also paved the way to the Industrial Revolution and the modern factory system. In his water-powered cotton mill at Cromford and elsewhere in England and Scotland, Arkwright introduced completely mechanized ...
(redirected fromSir Richard Arkwright) Encyclopedia Ark·wright (ärk′rīt′), SirRichard1732-1792. British inventor and manufacturer who patented a machine for spinning cotton thread (1769) and established cotton mills that were among the first to use machinery on a large scale. ...
F. Nasmith, under the auspices of the Newcomen Society, to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning machine known as the water frame and the founder of the factory system of cotton manufacture as we know it to-day. In introducing Mr. ...
Arkwright and his partners finally persuad the Government to remove the crippling import tariff on raw cotton, which had been imposed earlier in order to protect the woolen industry.1779: His mill in Chorley, Lancashire is destroyed by a mob of labourers who burned it down as a protest ...
Richard Arkwright was an entrepreneur and an inventor who had exclusive organizational skills that enabled him to develop a profitable factory system. Besides, the increased fascination of Richard Arkwright in cotton spinning and carding machinery made him join forces with a Warrington watchmaker whose ...
cotton millThis article describes the archaeological recording of Richard Arkwright's mill on Shudehill in Manchester. This complex marked an important moment in the development of the mechanisation of the cotton industry in Britain. After initial but ultimately unsuccessful experimentation with a direct-...
F. Nasmith, under the auspices of the Newcomen Society, to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning machine known as the water frame and the founder of the factory system of cotton manufacture as we know it to-day. In introducing Mr. ...