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Sir Richard Arkwright was an 18th Century inventor and businessman who helped start the modern factory system. But his blue plaque entry on English Heritage's website now highlights the fact his ...

Arkwright paid for a patent in 1769 to stop others copying his invention. This spinning machine spins 96 strands of yarn at once. It was one of many similar machines installed in mills in ...

This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the ...

and am ready to praise a Watts and an Arkwright, yet I am unwilling to see my own countrymen robbed of their just merits and inventions. Within the last year or so a patent has been issued by the ...