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	Samuel Slater
		Slater was born at Holly House Farm in Blackbrook, near Belper in Derbyshire, on June 9th, 1768 - coincidentally, just one day after Richard Arkwright had submitted his patent application for the water-frame spinning machine which was to revolutionise the cotton industry.
		Samuel was the third of five sons of yeoman farmer William Slater, who just happened to be a business acquaintance of a man named Jedediah Strutt.
		When Samuel Slater died in Webster, Massachussets, in 1835, he left a fortune of $1.2 million, which was about the same amount as Arkwright had amassed some forty years earlier.
	www.cottontimes.co.uk /slater.htm (1563 words)

	Samuel Slater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 2000) is known as the father of the alley-oop and also the poop-a-scoop]].
		The son of William Slater, a wealthy farmer, Samuel Slater was born near Belper, Derbyshire, England.
		In 1798 Samuel Slater split from Almy and Brown to build his own larger mill in partnership with his brother John, which he called the White Mill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Slater (329 words)

	Encyclopedia: Samuel Slater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Samuel Slater was born on June 9, 1768 in Derbyshire, England.
		Slater had to prove that the mill would be successful, by operating in a rented space in a mill before building a mill.
		Samuel Slater started the American textile industry in Pawtucket, but the industry was not launched until the principles of management were established by Slater.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samuel-Slater (947 words)

	Samuel Slater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Samuel was born in 1768 in the county of Derbyshire, England.
		Samuel's birth occurred the same year that Richard Arkwright, after years of experimentation, succeeded in developing machinery that could card, draw out, and spin cotton in a continuous flow.
		Samuel Slater landed in New York in November of 1789 and promptly went to work in a small textile mill in the city.
	www.slatermill.org /html/history.html (760 words)

	Samuel Slater
		Slater was compelled to prepare all the plans in the several departments of manufacturing, and to construct with his own hands the different kinds of machinery, or else teach others how to do it.
		Slater was joined by his brother John, from England, and soon afterward a cotton-mill was erected in a locality now known as Slatersville, Rhode Island In 1812 Mr.
		Slater was early interested in the cause of education, and gave liberally for the establishment of the Norwich free academy and other objects.
	www.famousamericans.net /samuelslater (725 words)

	Slater
		Slater, Samuel (1768-1835) Inventor, Manufacturer: Samuel Slater was born on June 9, 1768, in Derbyshire, England.
		Slater trained others in how to operate the machinery, and soon the machines were producing cotton at a quality level equal to British textiles.
		In 1796, Slater established a Sunday School for the education and moral advancement of his workers, among the first in the United States.
	www.multied.com /Bio/nn/Slater.html (304 words)

	A Bio. of America: The Rise of Capitalism - Transcript
		Slater's mill was a place for making textiles, the woven fabrics used for clothing and hundreds of other products.
		Samuel Slater tried this family system of production in New England, after his expanding system of factories ran out of children to employ.
		Slater was the first to build large steam driven factories, but soon other cotton mills made the conversion to coal and steam.
	www.learner.org /biographyofamerica/prog07/transcript/page02.html (1530 words)

	Links Between Belper, Derbyshire, UK, and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Holly House in 1768 to William Slater one of the landed gentry of Blackbrook, near Belper.
		Samuel was apprenticed at this Strutt mill in 1782 aged 14, and was brought up in the Strutt family home.
		Samuel had heard about their advanced machines and experimental work and offered to work with no contract, to prove his worth.
	www.knight-gkla.supanet.com /belper-links-with-pawtucket.htm (446 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Slater Samuel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Slater, Samuel (1768-1835), British-born American cotton producer, recognized as the founder of the cotton industry in the United States and as a...
		The Arkwright method of spinning was introduced into the United States in 1790 by Samuel Slater, who started a factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
		Samuel, two books of the Old Testament that provide the primary source for the history of Israel during the 11th and 10th centuries bc.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Slater_Samuel.html (119 words)

	The Valley Breeze : Rhode Island Attractions
		Samuel Slater was 21 years old when he sailed away from England with a crude understanding of his country's textile machinery secrets.
		With the financial support of Oziel Wilkinson, Samuel Slater built the Slater Mill in 1793 based on a general idea of how the mill should be operated and in August of that year, Slater successfully produced cotton yarn using a water-powered mill.
		Originally known as Buffam's Mills, the site was chosen by John Slater, younger brother of Samuel Slater, as a perfect site for their new mill, with abundant water power and laborers from surrounding farms.
	www.valleybreeze.com /Free/368430471726383.php (2547 words)

	Samuel Slater: Applied for a Job, Received a Factory
		Slater received passage at London, and as his ship was about to leave the harbor, he wrote his family explaining his plans.
		Slater arrived in Philadelphia in 1789, and began to inquire of the republic's true situation in manufacturing.
		Slater sent his resume with his entire background, his abilities, and the position for which he was applying.
	www.light-science.com /slaterjob.html (897 words)

	Samuel Slater Biography / Biography of Samuel Slater Main Biography
		Samuel Slater was born near Belper in Derbyshire on June 9, 1768, the son of a prosperous yeoman farmer.
		As a youth, Samuel demonstrated considerable skill as a mechanic, and in school he excelled in arithmetic.
		The Slater farm was located near the river Derwent; the first spinning mill driven by water power was built in Cromford on the Derwent in 1771 by Jedediah Strutt and Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the water-frame spinner.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-samuel-slater (222 words)

	Lippitt Mill History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Slater, along with later, lesser-known machinists, brought from England knowledge of the most modern methods available in 1789, for the spinning of cotton or wool.
		Invented by Samuel Compton in 1782 and termed "mule" because it was a combination of the machines that were invented by Arkwright and Hargreaves.
		Samuel Slater apprenticed at a spinning mill in Belper, England (above), there he learned about the new waterpower technology invented by Richard Arkwright in the 1760's.
	www.riverpointlace.com /lippitt_mill_history.htm (3968 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Samuel Slater
		Samuel Slater has been called the "father of the American factory system." He was born in Derbyshire, England on June 9, 1768.
		The son of a yeoman farmer, Slater went to work at an early age as an apprentice for the owner of a cotton mill.
		Slater set foot in New York in late 1789, having memorized the details of Britain's innovative machines.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/slater_hi.html (349 words)

	Slater, Samuel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The first mill was replaced by another in 1793, at nearby Pawtucket.
		In 1798 he formed an additional partnership, with his relatives by marriage, called Samuel Slater and Company, and built another mill near Pawtucket, R.I. He later established mills at Slatersville (now in the town of North Smithfield), R.I., and elsewhere in New England, becoming very prosperous.
		1967) and E. Cameron (1960); W. Bagnall, Samuel Slater and the Early Development of Cotton Manufacture in the United States (1890).
	www.bartleby.com /65/sl/Slater-S.html (261 words)

	Slater's Mark: Samuel Slater and the Founding of Webster
		In their travels to the Slater mills in Pawtucket, the Tiffany brothers passed through the Oxford South Gore, a location Bela described as “4 miles from Oxford, 3 from Dudley, and 6-½ from Thompson.” When told of this area, Slater sent Bela out to explore the Gore for possible expansion.
		Shortly thereafter, Slater and Tiffany began construction of the Green Mill to spin cotton into yarn, which it did for the first time in January 1813.
		Slater would continue to buy property in Webster and expand his business holdings through the end of his life.
	john.ourjourneys.org /slater/arrival.html (507 words)

	Baltimore/Harford County
		Slater, as he was called, worked for the owner Harry Pyle, at one point leased the mill from Mr.
		Samuel K.J.’s letters were postmarked from many of these communities in Baltimore and Harford Counties such as Jersulem Mills, Fork, Bradshaw and Upper Falls.
		Samuel Bearuregard, Willanna and their children were very active in the Mountain Christian Church.
	www.geocities.com /greenfieldgenealogy/baltharf.html (1587 words)

	CyberFair 98: Spotlight on Slater's Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The early history of the Blackstone Valley focuses on Samuel Slater and the introduction of water powered machinery to the textile industry.
		Samuel Slater, formerly employed as a middle manager at the Arkwright mills in England, was able to use his knowledge to establish America's first successful water-wheeled textile mill.
		Sundays were reserved for church in the morning and later Slater brought in teachers to start classes for his workers on Sunday afternoons.
	www.ri.net /schools/Pawtucket/Tolman/Cyberfair/slatermill.html (649 words)

	A-Clue.Com, Secret of Slater's Mill, Wi-Fi, Economic Policy, Clued-in, Clueless; newsletter of 7/21/2003 - from Dana ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Slater's Mill, in other words, is a lovely example of what we now call industrial espionage.
		Samuel Slater stole the secrets of England textile manufacture, set himself in business in America, and America made him a hero.
		Samuel Slater today may be Chinese, but he will in the end rule the day.
	www.a-clue.com /archive/03/cl030721.htm (2072 words)

	Samuel Slater of Rhode Island
		One of the individuals who played a big role in Rhode Island's economy was Samuel Slater.
		The state, along with other parts of the Northeast, was part of the American Industrial Revolution, when the economy, which had been based on agriculture, became one based on machines and industries.
		Slater established his first mill in 1790 on the Blackstone River in Rhode Island.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ri/slater_1 (185 words)

	Samuel Slater and Moses Brown Change America
		Samuel Slater was born on June 9, 1768.
		In December 1790 Slater and Brown were ready to start their mill using waterpower of a nearby stream.
		Because Slater and Brown started the mill in 1790, the Lowell mill was built farther north and is where the Lowell Girls are becoming so popular from.
	www.brunswick.k12.me.us /bjh/depart/curric/nationgrows/virtualtelegraph/periods/period1/slaterbrownreport.htm (626 words)

	No. 384: Samuel Slater
		Slater first took a dead-end job in a New York textile mill.
		Slater designed his mill to push the limited resources of early America to their very edge, and no further.
		In 1793, only four years after Slater began his work, Hannah Slater became the first woman to file for a patent in our new patent office.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi384.htm (501 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Immigration and Emigration - England - Derby - Industrial espionage - Article Page 1
		Samuel Slater was employed in one of Sir Richard Arkwright's mills
		Born in 1768, Samuel was the third of local farmer Mr Slater’s five sons.
		Samuel was chosen and at the age of 14 he began to work in Milford South Mill.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/immig_emig/england/derby/article_1.shtml (469 words)

	Slater's Mark: Samuel Slater and the Founding of Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Slater, Webster’s first representative in the Massachusetts General Court, died of tuberculosis in 1837 and George, one of the first selectman of Webster, died in 1843, leaving full control of their father’s company to their brother, Horatio Nelson.
		Zion Cemetery along with many of his descendants, there are still signs of Slater’s influence in the area.
		Across from Cranston Print Works is a monument to Samuel Slater erected by his great grandchildren in 1967.
	john.ourjourneys.org /slater/legacy.html (268 words)

	LSTD 1223 History of the United States Unit Two Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The story of Samuel Slater is intriguing simply as an adventure tale and might be used to bring some life to a lecture on early industrialization.
		At great personal risk, Samuel Slater transplanted the Industrial Revolution to America from Great Britain, which had held a virtual monopoly on manufacturing technology.
		Slater initiated his plan by asking his employer if he could supervise the building of a new mill.
	www.ou.edu /cls/online/lstd1223/lecture2.htm (964 words)

	Anecdote - Samuel Slater - American Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Samuel Slater, born near Manchester in 1768, began working in a mill at the age of fourteen.
		Though he quickly became a manager, Slater, painfully aware that his opportunities in class-ridden Britain were severely limited, soon developed a devious plan.
		Slater spent six years studying every aspect of cotton manufacture and memorizing details of the complicated spinning looms invented by Richard Arkwright in 1768.
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=8389 (226 words)

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