USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Richard Arkwright was a British inventor and a leading businessman during the industrial revolution. He invented a machine called Arkwright’s water frame producing cotton yarn in 1764. The roller spinning principle of Paul and Bourne became the basis of his spinning frame and water frame which he patented in 1769.

Detailed explanation-2: -One such invention was the cotton mill. Richard Arkwright established the world’s first water powered cotton mill in 1771.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arkwright set up a textile factory in 1771 at Cromford in Derbyshire, which was the first true factory; it employed thousands of women and children working around the clock. The spinning frames were powered by waterwheels, hence the term water frames.