Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton ... lot of money if he could invent a machine to spin cotton fibre into yarn, or thread ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machines Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A ...