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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
LS/338.4
Title
Samuel Slater and the origins of the American Textile industry, 1790-1860.
Date
1984
Publication Date
1984
Author
Tucker, Barbara M.
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN
0801415942
Term
Textile industry
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Slater; Samuel (1768-1835); Of Belper; English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution". He brought British textile technology to America, founding mills at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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