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 ...

This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in ... designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in ...

Cromford Mills in Derbyshire - built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright - was the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill and has now been upgraded with 21st Century technology.

Cromford Mill in Derbyshire - built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright - was the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill. The Arkwright Society has secured a total of £330,000 ...

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 ...

Drive north out of Derby on the A6 and soon you come to Cromford Mill. These days, it's a museum, but in 1771 it was the site of one of the most influential workplace experiments ever seen. This was ...