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 ...

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 ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I., Sept. 1. -- One hundred years ago Samuel Slater succeeded, for the first time on the western continent, in spinning cotton by power machinery. The feat was accomplished in a mill ...

Brothers Samuel and John Slater find a suitable location in northern ... At first Gilmore's invention proved to be faulty in too many mills, which could have been the reason for Sam turning ...

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.