GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution", a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the “Father of the American Factory System".

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1790, Samuel Slater, a cotton spinner’s apprentice who left England the year before with the secrets of textile machinery, built a factory from memory to produce spindles of yarn. The factory had 72 spindles, powered by by nine children pushing foot treadles, soon replaced by water power.

Detailed explanation-3: -It wasn’t until Samuel Slater, trained in Britain in modern textile technology, emigrated to the US in 1790 having memorized factory plans that the first US spinning factory was built. Starting with 9 children running forty foot pedals, the mill had 72 spindles. Eventually the machinery was operated by water power.

Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel Slater built that first American mill in Pawtucket based on designs of English inventor Richard Arkwright. Though it was against British law to leave the country if you were a textile worker, Slater fled anyway in order to seek his fortune in America.