Samuel Slater
Born June 9, 1768 (Derbyshire, England)
Died April 21, 1835 (Webster, Rhode Island)
Industrialist
Samuel Slater was often called the founder of the American Industrial Revolution. In 1789 he arrived in the United States from his native England with the construction details of the power looms committed to memory. It was a time when the new American nation was eager to learn the secrets of England's thriving textile industry, but the sale of such information to the former colonies was prohibited by English law. Slater settled in Rhode Island, where he built machines that made cotton yarn and were the first such looms in the country. He went on to launch his own immensely successful textile company, and it made him one of the first industrial leaders in the United States. The Slater mills built along New England riverbanks helped bring an end to England's dominance in the textile industry, but they also forever changed the American economy. During Slater's lifetime America would emerge as a manufacturing powerhouse, and its textile mills were the first large-scale factories to fuel the new economy.
The New Textile Industry
Born in June 1768, Slater was the son of William Slater, an educated, moderately prosperous farmer in Belper, Derbyshire, England.
This page contains 201 words.
Slater, Samuel article
Read the rest of this article.
This article contains 2,276 words
(approx. 8 pages at 300 words per page).
Order our Samuel Slater Article
