dec 28, 1790 - 1791 Slater Textile Mill
Description:
background: Samuel Slater memorized textilemachine in Britain goes to America for profit.
in 1791, with the help of Quaker Moses Brown, he built the first textile machine for spinning cotton thread with water power in Rhode Island
Samuel Slater: Father of the Factory System
problem: Getting cotton thread is very laborious for separeting the seeds
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Date:
dec 28, 1790
Now
~ 234 years ago