1732-1792:
Sir Richard Arkwright was an English textile industrialist and inventor whose use of power-driven machinery and employment of a factory system of production were perhaps more important than his inventions.
In his early career, he became interested in spinning machinery at least by 1764, when he began construction of his first machine. Arkwright?s water frame (so-called because it operated by water power) produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp. The thread made on James Hargreaves? spinning jenny lacked the strength of Arkwright?s cotton yarn and was suitable only for the weft. With several partners, Arkwright opened factories at Nottingham and Cromford. Within a few years, he was operating a number of factories equipped with machinery for carrying out all phases of textile manufacturing from carding to spinning.
He maintained a dominant position in the textile industry despite the rescinding of his comprehensive patent of 1775. He may have borrowed the ideas of others for his machines, but he was able to build the machines and to make them work successfully. In 1786 he was knighted.
1769 and 1779 by Sir Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton encouraged development of mechanized processes of carding and combing wool for the spinning machines. Soon after the turn of the century the first power loom was developed. The replacement of water power by steam power increased the speed of power-driven.
Sir Richard Arkwright, making use of earlier inventions, produced a better machine, capable of making stronger yarn than Hargreaves?s jenny. Still a third machine, Samuel Crompton?s ?mule? (1779), vastly increased productivity, making it possible for a single operator to work more than 1,000 spindles simultaneously.
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Sir Richard Arkwright was an English textile industrialist and inventor whose use of power-driven machinery and employment of a factory system of production were perhaps more important than his inventions.
In his early career, he became interested in spinning machinery at least by 1764, when he began construction of his first machine. Arkwright?s water frame (so-called because it operated by water power) produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp. The thread made on James Hargreaves? spinning jenny lacked the strength of Arkwright?s cotton yarn and was suitable only for the weft. With several partners, Arkwright opened factories at Nottingham and Cromford. Within a few years, he was operating a number of factories equipped with machinery for carrying out all phases of textile manufacturing from carding to spinning.
He maintained a dominant position in the textile industry despite the rescinding of his comprehensive patent of 1775. He may have borrowed the ideas of others for his machines, but he was able to build the machines and to make them work successfully. In 1786 he was knighted.
1769 and 1779 by Sir Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton encouraged development of mechanized processes of carding and combing wool for the spinning machines. Soon after the turn of the century the first power loom was developed. The replacement of water power by steam power increased the speed of power-driven.
Sir Richard Arkwright, making use of earlier inventions, produced a better machine, capable of making stronger yarn than Hargreaves?s jenny. Still a third machine, Samuel Crompton?s ?mule? (1779), vastly increased productivity, making it possible for a single operator to work more than 1,000 spindles simultaneously.
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