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Samuel slater

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

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  1. Samuel slater Toby Rodgers And Logan Pratt

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. pictures • Samuel slayter slayter spinning frame

  7. 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 .

  8. 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

  9. bibliography • /www.googleimages.com/ • /www.ask.com/ • /www.wikipedia.com/

  10. thank you • Hope you liked it

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