Samuel Slater

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Samuel Slater was an English-born American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" for bringing British textile technology to the United States and establishing some of the first successful textile mills.

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instanceOf immigrant to the United States
person
textile industrialist
apprenticedAt Jedediah Strutt's cotton mill NERFINISHED
apprenticeshipField cotton spinning
associatedWithEvent American Industrial Revolution NERFINISHED
associatedWithLocation Pawtucket, Rhode Island NERFINISHED
Webster, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
birthDate 1768-06-09
birthPlace Mellor, Derbyshire, England NERFINISHED
burialPlace Mount Zion Cemetery, Webster, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
businessPartner Moses Brown NERFINISHED
William Almy NERFINISHED
citizenship Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED
United States of America
coFounded Slater Mill NERFINISHED
deathDate 1835-04-21
deathPlace Webster, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED
developedSystem factory-based textile production system
emigratedTo United States of America
emigrationYear 1789
field textile manufacturing
founded Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island NERFINISHED
gender male
industry textile industry
influenced early American manufacturing practices
introducedTechnologyFrom Great Britain NERFINISHED
introducedTechnologyTo United States of America NERFINISHED
knownAs Father of the American Factory System
Father of the American Industrial Revolution
laterNationality American
legacy pioneered large-scale mechanized textile production in the United States
marriageYear 1791
millOpeningYear 1793
name Samuel Slater NERFINISHED
nationalityAtBirth British
notableFor bringing British textile technology to the United States
building the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill in the United States
helping start the American Industrial Revolution
occupation industrialist
textile mill owner
residence Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States NERFINISHED
Webster, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED
spouse Hannah Wilkinson NERFINISHED
Hannah Wilkinson Slater NERFINISHED
usedPowerSource water power
usedTechnology Arkwright water frame NERFINISHED
workedOn Arkwright-style water-powered spinning frames

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