Richard Arkwright was born in Preston, Lancashire, England in 1732. In Preston he was a wig-maker of the best fashion. At that time the textile industry was experiencing a shortage of cotton threads. So Arkwright, in 1769 designed a spinning frame by which the cotton fibre was spun into threads.
He was a very ambitious man. The hand spinning workers, who supposed that their means of subsistence would be destroyed by competition from the machine, compelled the inventor to move to Nottingham. Arkwright had a keen business mind and he went into partnership with Jedediah Strutt (the invento