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 ...

In 1776, Jedediah Strutt and his family created one of the world's earliest planned industrial communities, with housing, ...

MacFarlane "Mac" Lafferty Cates, Jr., is being remembered for his love and dedication to Spartanburg. Cates, who was the leader of a prominent textile family and a philanthropist, died at his home in ...

Arkwright has received a federal grant to help with expanding the cleanup of environmental hazardous sites around the neighborhood. The Environmental Protection Agency has selected the community as a ...

A world-first mill is to return to hydro power after planning permission was approved for a new water wheel. Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, was the world's first successful water-powered cotton ...

Arkwright invented a water-powered cotton-spinning machine that became the basis for huge cotton mills and eventually the modern factory system. Born in England to a large, poor family, Arkwright ...

A GRADE II listed Arkwright mill in the heart of the Ribble Valley will form the centerpiece of a multi-million pound hotel, spa and restaurant redevelopment after planning consent was granted at ...

COVENTRY, R.I. — Squeezed between the Hope section of Scituate and the Lippitt section of West Warwick is the village of Arkwright — a mostly residential neighborhood along the Pawtuxet River known ...

Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill in 1771 A campaign has been launched to raise £100,000 for a statue to commemorate an entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution who was born in ...

The Arkwright Society’s Cromford Mills: Building 17 is one of the two UK winners of the 2017 European Union Prize for Culture Heritage/ Europa Nostra Award, Europe’s top honour in the heritage field.

CRANSTON, R.I. — In the early 1800s, the village of Fiskeville passed for what was then considered urbanization, another spot where Rhode Island entrepreneurs were harnessing the water power of the ...