Samuel Slater
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Samuel Slater was the son of a farmer born in Belper Derbyshire,
England on June 9th,1768. At the age of 14 Samuel was already working in
the textile industry for a man named Jedediah Strutt. After 8 years who
would have thought he would be superintendent of Strutts Mill. He soon
married the daughter of Moses Brown's business partner. In 1793, only four
years after Slater began his work, Hannah Slater became the first woman to
file for a patent in the new patent office. She'd invented a new way to spin
thread. After doing that for quite some time they emigrated secretly into
America in 1789, to make his fortune grow even more in infant textile
industry. While others immigrated before him Samuel was one of the first to
know how to build and operate textile machines. After much funding from
investors and local artistians he built the first successful water powered
textile mill in Pawtucket in 1793. By the time firms entered the industry,
Slater's organizational methods had become the model for everyone in the
Blackstone River Valley...