Richard Arkwright was a wig maker ... The threads were also much stronger. Arkwright opened a factory in Cromford in Derbyshire, and built houses near the factory for workers to live in.

This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768 ... He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he ...

The modern factory owes its origins to the mills at Cromford, where Richard Arkwright's inventions were first put into industrial-scale production. The workers' housing associated with this and the ...

This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768 ... He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...