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 ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these ... so they were called Water Frames. Now it is the only complete machine of ...

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 ...