Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution
- ISBN-10
- 0382099516
- ISBN-13
- 9780382099519
- Category
- Industrialists
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Author
- Christopher Simonds
Description
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
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