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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	LS/File 677.21
Title	Samuel Slater and the oldest cotton machinery in America
Date	1936
Publication Date	1936
Author	Lewton, Frederick L.
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Further Information	Includes original typed letter from H. N. Slater, Switzerland to Mr F. T. Harrison, Belper dated 29th October 1956
Format	Printed
Term	Cotton 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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