This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he learnt ...

July 3, 1769.—Arkwright' ramous patent for spinning by rollers was taken out on July 3, 1769, a few months after Watt's still more famous patent on the separate condenser for steam engines. A barber ...