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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
LS/677.028
Title
Samuel Slater: a short interpretive essay on Samuel Slater's role in the birth of the American textile industry.
Date
1974
Publication Date
1974
Author
Rivard, Paul E.
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Further Information
Cover title: Samuel Slater father of American manufactures.
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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Belper
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