... water-powered machinery for spinning and carding cotton was set in motion in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Based on the designs of English inventor Richard Arkwright, a mill was built by Samuel Slater on the Blackstone River. The Slater mill was the first American factory to successfully produce cotton yarn with water-powered machines. Slater was a recent English immigrant who apprenticed Arkwright ... 's partner, Jebediah Strutt. Samuel Slater had evaded British law against emigration of textile workers in order to seek his fortune in America. Considered the father of the United States texti...

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... dispensed with the second weaver normally needed to help weave broadcloth. In 1770 James Hargreaves had invented the spinning jenny, a machine that spins a number of threads at once. By 1779 Samuel Crompton, a British inventor, introduced a machine called a mule, which improved mechanized spinning by decreasing the danger that threads would break and by creating a finer thread (Pursell, 1995). In 1785 Edmund ... Cartwright patented a power loom and two years later a small factory with twenty of his looms was established. In 1791 Samuel Slater developed a cotton-spinning mill, he was a y...

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... today about half of all the large apartments and office buildings in this country are built on his steel cage system. The invention of the telegraph is usually credited to Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872). Although he did invent the Morse code, the real credit should be given to two Englishmen, William Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875). Cooke became ... ...

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... of Labor collapsed. As the Knights declined, a new labor organization began to challenge it for supremacy. This was the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It was formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers, a leader of the Cigarmakers' Union. Gompers believed that craft unions of skilled workers were the best kind. Unskilled workers were easily replaced when they went on strike. Craft workers ... ...

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... a number of poems and was greatly into the Romantic Movement. Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of ... ...

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... organization, and eventually fell apart (Labor). In 1886, the American Federation of Labor (AF of L) was formed and replaced the Knights of Labor. Its leader was former cigar union official Samuel Gompers who only wanted to focus on skilled workers (Labor). The founders were quoted as saying, "the various trades have been affected by the introduction of machinery, the subdivision of ... ...

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