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Sir Richard Arkwright 1732-92, English inventor. His construction of a machine for spinning, the water frame, patented in 1769, was an early step in the Industrial Revolution. His machines and his gift for organization enabled him and his partner, Jedediah Strutt, to establish huge cotton mills and thus helped to start the factory system. He became very wealthy and was knighted in 1786.

Bibliography: See R. S. Fitton and A. P. Wadsworth, The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758-1830 (1958, repr. 1968); The Arkwright Society, Arkwright and the Mills at Cromford (1971).

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Arkwright, Sir Richard (1732–92) British inventor and industrialist. He introduced powered machinery to the textile industry with his water-driven frame for spinning; he started work on the machine in 1764 and patented his invention in 1769. He opened textile factories in Nottingham.

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