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Samuel slater. Toby Rodgers And Logan Pratt. Childhood. Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England. Samuel received a basic education at a school in England.
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Samuel slater Toby Rodgers And Logan Pratt
Childhood • Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England. • Samuel received a basic education at a school in England. • At ten years old he began working at a cotton mill opened by a guy named jedediah strutt.
In America • Samuel Slater has been called the "father of the American factory system." • Slater built America's first water-powered cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
In America( Continued ) • He saved many familys by employing them into his factory • The pay wasent good but it was enough money so they can eat • The children that worked there also got to live in the factory
Management style • Slater drew on his British village experience to create a factory system called the "Rhode Island System," . • Children were aloud to work at the mill. • Children aged 7 to 12 were the first employees of the mill
pictures • Samuel slayter slayter spinning frame
progress • By the end of 1790, it was up and running, with workers walking a treadmill to generate power. • By 1791, a waterwheel drove the machinery that carded and spun cotton into thread .
duplicate factorys • By 1800 the success of the Slater mill had been duplicated by other entrepreneurs • by 1810 Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin reported the U.S. had 50 cotton-yarn mills
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