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Slater, Samuel
Born: 1768 AD
Died: 1835 AD, at 67 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Actors, Businessmen, Merchants, Professors
Died: 1835 AD, at 67 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Actors, Businessmen, Merchants, Professors
US (English-born) textile industrialist
immigrated to US 1789 and reproduced Richard Arkwright's inventions from memory, because direct export of Arkwright's plans or machines from England was forbidden
founded Almy, Brown and Slater factory in Pawtucket 1793
father of US cotton industry
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Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860 by Barbara M. Tucker (Hardcover - Dec 18, 1984) |
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Memorial of Samuel Slater, and others,: A committee appointed by the manufacturers of cotton by Samuel Slater (Unknown Binding - May 18, 2008) |
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Slater's mill by F. N Monjo (Unknown Binding - May 18, 1972) |
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Industrial genius Samuel Slater, by Lewis S Miner (Unknown Binding - May 18, 1968) |
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Samuel Slater, father of American manufactures (American saga series) by Edward Hugh Cameron (Unknown Binding - May 18, 1960) |
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Samuel Slater: Father of the American textile industry (Fathers of industries series) by Leonard M Fanning (Unknown Binding - May 18, 2008) |
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