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Samuel Slater

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Slater 1768-1835, American pioneer in the cotton textile industry, b. Derbyshire, England. As an apprentice and later a mill supervisor, he gained a thorough knowledge of all the cotton-manufacturing machinery then in use. Drawn by the bounties offered for the encouragement of the textile industry in America, he left England in disguise, since the emigration of textile workers was forbidden, and reached New York in 1789. In 1790 he went to Providence, R.I., where he met Moses Brown and contracted to reproduce the complicated machinery for the firm of Almy and Brown, to which his name... Read more
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater The English-born American manufacturer Samuel Slater (1768-1835) built the first successful cotton mill in the United States, in 1790. Samuel Slater was born near Belper in Derbyshire on... Read more
Samuel Slater
...the first successful American cotton mill at Pawtucket, R.I., the first of several plants. He founded the town of Slatersville, R.I. He is regarded as the founder of the U.S. cotton textile industry. Samuel Slater Samuel Slater Samuel Slater Read more

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