USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Slater set foot in New York in late 1789, having memorized the details of Britain’s innovative machines. With the support of a Quaker merchant, Moses Brown, Slater built America’s first water-powered cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Slater introduced the first water-powered cotton mill to the United States. This invention revolutionized the textile industry and was important for the Industrial Revolution. Born in Derbyshire, England, to a prosperous farmer, Slater apprenticed at a mill at age 14.

Detailed explanation-3: -Slater established his first mill in 1790 on the Blackstone River in Rhode Island. It was one of the first factories in the United States. Three years later, in Pawtucket, he built Slater Mill, the first American factory to successfully produce cotton yarn with water-powered machines.

Detailed explanation-4: -Slater brought British textile technology to America, having memorized the designs of textile factory machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the United States at the age of 21. He used the information to design the first textile mills in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -As a young British immigrant, Samuel Slater took credit for building the United States’ first successful water-powered cotton mill in 1790. By producing replicas of innovative cotton-spinning machinery recently developed by the English, Slater was able to create a fully operational facility in Rhode Island.