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Samuel Slater Born
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Slater Leaves for America
After his father died, slater beame an aprentice in a cotton mill that used recently invented spinnig machines.
Hearing of oprotunity in America and knowing full well of English laws that forbade leaving with the machine or knowledge of how they worked, he left for america and began living in Pawtukket Rhode island. -
Slater Makes an Offer you can't refuse
in 1790 Slater signed a contract with a man named Moses Brown. Moses Brown was trying to make money by using the original wool spinning machine in his mill, and was unsucsessful. In this year Samuel made a deal in which Brown would provide the money to make the new, better machines from england, and any profits made would be split 50/50. If Samuel failed, he said he would acept no money for his work. -
Slater puts it all together
Slater realized that the key to sucsess was not just having the machines, but putting them together as well. By combining the machine that seperated coton int fibres with the machines that cleaned and spun it into thread, Samuel made a nearly continuous money making machine: The First Factory -
Modern Factories
Because of later innovations in the factory system, factories can now churn out products faster than ever before. Using electric motors and assembly-line techniques, they work fast while still holding on to their put-it-all-together roots.
