I'm doing something on Arkwrights Water frame and need to find the positives and negatives. Any help?
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Richard Arkwright's water frame was one of the most significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Almost overnight, Arkwright would go from being a wig maker to one of the richest men in the world.
His invention would also kickstart the entire Industrial Revolution, earning him the title of "The Father of the Industrial Revolution".
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Improved spinning machine (water frame), by Sir Richard Arkwright, England, 1775.
Improved spinning machine (water frame), Richard Arkwright, 1775. These spinning machines were driven by water power at Arkwright's Cromford mill, hence the name of Water Frame. This is an improvement on 1860-4, having an arrangement for guiding the yarn evenly over the bobbins. A belt from an external main driving pulley drives eight spindles. Textile machinery such as this item revolutionised manufacturing processes in the cotton industry and elsewhere during the early Industrial Revolution.
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