USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Richard Arkwright first spinning mill, Cromford Mill, Derbyshire, was built in 1771.

Detailed explanation-2: -In December 1790, working for mill owner Moses Brown, he started up the first permanent American cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Employing a workforce of nine children between the ages of 7 and 12, Slater successfully mechanized the carding and spinning processes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout the decades that followed there was a whole series of world firsts to emanate from Ironbridge including cast iron rails, iron wheels, steam cylinders, steam locomotives, iron boats and, most famously, the still proud and erect first iron bridge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Coupled with the carding machine, the Arkwright spinning frame ushered in the modern factory. The first textile mills, needing waterpower to drive their machinery, were built on fast-moving streams in rural England. After the 1780s, with the application of steam power, mills also grew up in urban centers.

Detailed explanation-5: -1764 Water frame invented by Richard Arkwright: the first powered textile machine. 1769 Arkwright patented the water frame.