Arkwright invented a water-powered cotton-spinning machine that became the basis for huge cotton mills and eventually the modern factory system. Born in England to a large, poor family, Arkwright ...

Richard Arkwright was born in 1732, the 13th child of a Preston tailor. He never went to school, but was taught by his cousin, became apprenticed to a barber, and set up shop in Bolton. Then, thinking ...

Two new bronze sculptures depicting influential figures from Preston's history are to go on display in a Lancashire museum. The sculptures of suffragette Edith Rigby and industrialist Sir Richard ...

The Derwent Valley in central England contains a series of 18th- and 19th- century cotton mills and an industrial landscape of high historical and technological interest. The modern factory owes its ...

Water frame, water powered spinning machine made by Richard Arkwright, Cromford, c.1775, and used at the Arkwright Mills at Matlock Bath. Water frame, water powered spinning machine made by Richard ...

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View Portrait of Sir Richard Arkwright, full-length, wearing a brown coat and yellow waistcoat, seated beneath a red curtain beside a table on which is a set of cotton spinning rollers Studio of ...