slater, samuel

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slater, samuel

Samuel Slater's mill and the Industrial Revolution

1990
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.

Slater's mill

1972
A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.
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