This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first ...

Hydroelectric power is due to return to a textile mill which helped spark the industrial revolution. Cromford Mill in Derbyshire - built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright - was the world's first ...

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Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...