He was the first to develop factories housing both mechanised carding and spinning operations. Arkwright’s achievement was to combine power, machinery, semi-skilled labour and the new raw material of cotton to create mass-produced yarn. What was the impact of Richard Arkwright invention? It was the first powered, automatic, and continuousRead More →

In his early career as a wig-maker, Arkwright traveled widely in Great Britain and began his lifelong practice of self-education. He became interested in spinning machinery at least by 1764, when he began construction of his first machine (patented in 1769). What did Englishman Richard Arkwright invent? New Britain MuseumRead More →