Figures like Samuel Slater and, later ... Eli Whitney’s infamous invention of the cotton gin in the early 1790s coincided with this new domestic demand for cotton and thus the demand for ...

Kernersville, NC 8/31/1948 - 11/10/2015 Mr. Samuel Gray Slater, 67, of Kernersville, NC, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Tuesday, November 10, 2015. Mr. Slater was born on August 31 ...

The Samuel Slater Experience is a historic museum featuring state-of-the-art 4-D digital technology to tell the story of Samuel Slater, the beginnings of the American Industrial Revolution ...

A Belper mill worker became the father of American industry, but an enemy back home. BBC Radio Derby's Charlie Sayers met with the Slater's study group at the Derby Silk Mill to discuss his life.