The Arkwright Scholarships Trust - scholarship named after Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792)
:For the settlement with a similar name in the USA see Arkwright, New York
-- Perfected by Thomas Highs of Leigh, stolen by , POV --> This principle was the basis of Richard Arkwright's later water frame design.
As early as 1835, the distinguished author Edward Baines reports that there were many false claims being made about Hargreaves, and Arkwright.
The ring frame developed from the throstle frame, which in its turn was a descendant of Arkwright's water frame.
It was built in 1782 by partners of Richard Arkwright, and destroyed by fire in 1854, rebuilt and finally destroyed during the Manchester blitz in 1940.
Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule or mule jenny in 1779, so called because it is a hybrid of Arkwright's water frame and James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in the same way that mule is the product of crossbreeding a female horse with a male donkey.
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Businessmen such as Richard Arkwright employed inventors to find solutions that would increase the amount of yarn spun, then took out the relevant patents.
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Mill ponds, weirs, sluice gates and an aqueduct are also part of the museum as well as a 19th-century working waterwheel, fulling stocks and other machinery associated with the finishing of woollen cloth, an original Arkwright water frame, and a Hargreaves Spinning Jenny.
Arkwright, along with his guide and two porters, was killed in an avalanche on Mont Blanc on 13 October 1866.
The school pupils and teachers are divided into three houses, named Bamford (after JCB founder Joseph Cyril Bamford), Arkwright (after industrialist Richard Arkwright) and Royce (after Rolls-Royce founder Henry Royce).
William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.
Milford's claim to fame is that one of Strutt's apprentices at Milford was Samuel Slater, who absconded to America carrying Arkwright's system in his head.
Improvements in textile machinery (by Kay, Hargreaves and Arkwright), along with the development of turnpike roads (1751–1781) helped to develop the new cotton industry and increase the local population.
The Centre’s three Victorian character rooms are situated in the Arkwright building, originally built between 1877 and 1881 by Lockwood and Mawson, the prominent Yorkshire architectural practice founded by Henry Francis Lockwood.
She married first to Captain Frank Wigsell Arkwright August 29, 1878 at Sanderstead, Surrey Court, England and had two children, a son Esme Arkwright, and a daughter Vera Nina Arkwright, who later through two marriages became Vera Bate Lombardi (b. 1883 London - d. 1948 Rome).
In 1789 the town's first spinning mill using the principle of Arkwright's Water-Frame was built.