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  2. Samuel Slater - Wikipedia

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    Slater constructed a new mill in 1793 for the sole purpose of textile manufacture under Almy, Brown & Slater, as he was now partners with Almy and Brown. It was a 72-spindle mill; the patenting of Eli Whitney 's cotton gin in 1794 reduced the labor in processing cotton.

  3. Cotton mill - Wikipedia

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    A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or ... to house roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis ... of a state-of-the-art textile mill in 1906. That ...

  4. Slater Mill - Wikipedia

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    The Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It is the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America to utilize the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright .

  5. Beverly Cotton Manufactory - Wikipedia

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    However, the Beverly mill laid the cornerstone for mill technologies in the future. Modern-day questions about the commercial viability of Beverly mill were called into question as Slater Mill was founded. Moses Brown of Providence had stated in a letter to the Beverly mill that Beverly's manufactory process is the "first and largest" (1791).

  6. Waltham-Lowell system - Wikipedia

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    Slater Mill. The precursor to the Waltham-Lowell system was used in Rhode Island, where British immigrant Samuel Slater set up his first spinning mills in 1793. Slater drew on his British mill experience to create a factory system called the "Rhode Island System" based on the customary patterns of family life in New England villages.

  7. History of cotton - Wikipedia

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    The modern cotton gin, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, enormously grew the American cotton industry, ... British textile mills in 1913. In 1912, the British cotton ...

  8. Textile industry - Wikipedia

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    The stocking frame invented in 1589 for silk became viable when in 1759, ... Between 1947 and 2000, the number of textile Mills increased from 3 to 600. In the same ...

  9. Textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Textile manufacturing in the modern era is an evolved form of the art and craft industries. Until the 18th and 19th centuries, the textile industry was a household work. It became mechanised in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has continued to develop through science and technology since the twentieth century. [2]