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 ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he learnt ...

This is where the revolution in the production of cotton began. Arkwright invented the spinning frame also known as the water frame in 1768. Spinnning frames This could produce stronger threads for ...

Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill in 1771 A campaign has been launched to raise £100,000 for a statue to commemorate an entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution who was born in ...