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British textile industrialist and inventor of several patents in the field of spinning frame engineering; Arkwright is considered as the founder of large scale textile industry
Sir Richard Arkwright, was an Englishman who, although the patents were eventually overturned, is often credited with inventing the spinning frame, later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power. He also patented a carding engine that could convert raw cotton into yarn. A self-made man, he was a leading entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution. Arkwright's achievement was to combine power, machinery, semi-skilled labour and a new raw material (cotton) to create, more than a century before Ford, mass-produced yarn. His skills of organization made him, more than anyone else, th ecreator of the modern factory system, especially in his mill at Cromford.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, designer, inventor, entrepreneur, skilling
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variant spelling:
Arkwright, Richard
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Curriculum vitae
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* 23.12.1732
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Preston (Lancashire)
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Born at 23 December in Preston (Lancashire)
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1760
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Bolton
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Opening a barber shop in Bolton
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1767
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Acquaintance with Kay, probably the beginning of the study of the spinning machine
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1769
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First patent for a spinning machine; Formation of his first spinning mill in Nottingham
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1771
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he built the world's first water-powered mill
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1775
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Second patent on the entire process of mechanical cotton yarn production
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1777
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he installed the first steam engine to be used in a cotton mill
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1781 - 1785
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First and second patent process before the "Court of King's Bench"
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1786
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Arkwright is high sheriff of Derbyshire and ennobled
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† 03.08.1792
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Cromford
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Died at 03 August in Cromford
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