Samuel inventions slater mill

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    Samuel Slater (1768-1835), after an apprenticeship by the Arkwrights and Strutts, built the world's first successful water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket in 1790, and Pawtucket was home to a thriving textile industry for the next 150 years.

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    Samuel Slater was born at or near Belper in Derbyshire on June 9, 1768, the son of a prosperous yeoman farmer.

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    • As a youth, Samuel demonstrated considerable skill as a mechanic, and in school he excelled in arithmetic.

    Apprenticeship in the Textile Trade

    The Slater farm was located near the river Derwent. The first spinning mill driven by water power was built in Cromford on the Derwent in 1771 by Jedediah Strutt and Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the water-frame spinner.

    In 1776 they dissolved their partnership, and Strutt took over his own mill in