biography
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| lived:
| (1768–1835)
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| biography:
| Mechanical engineer, the founder of the US cotton industry, born in Belper, Derbyshire, C England, UK. Apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt, he gained a detailed knowledge of the most advanced textile machinery and its operation. Britain had made both the export of machinery or data, and the emigration of textile workers, illegal; nevertheless, attracted by bounties offered by the USA, he emigrated under an assumed name in 1789, and was able to build up-to-date spinning machines for a struggling cotton mill in Rhode Island. He became a partner in the firm of Almy, Brown & Slater, whose prosperity laid the foundation for the success of the US cotton textile industry. |
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