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8 unusual facts about Arkwright


Arkwright

The Arkwright Scholarships Trust - scholarship named after Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792)

Arkwright Town

:For the settlement with a similar name in the USA see Arkwright, New York

Cotton-spinning machinery

-- Perfected by Thomas Highs of Leigh, stolen by , POV --> This principle was the basis of Richard Arkwright's later water frame design.

James Hargreaves

As early as 1835, the distinguished author Edward Baines reports that there were many false claims being made about Hargreaves, and Arkwright.

Ring spinning

The ring frame developed from the throstle frame, which in its turn was a descendant of Arkwright's water frame.

Shudehill Mill

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.

Spinning mule

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.

Businessmen such as Richard Arkwright employed inventors to find solutions that would increase the amount of yarn spun, then took out the relevant patents.


Helmshore

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.

Henry Arkwright

Arkwright, along with his guide and two porters, was killed in an avalanche on Mont Blanc on 13 October 1866.

JCB Academy

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).

Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway

William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.

Milford, Derbyshire

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.

Mons Mill, Todmorden

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.

Nottingham Conference Centre

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.

Rosa Frederica Baring FitzGeorge

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).

Stalybridge Mill, Stalybridge

In 1789 the town's first spinning mill using the principle of Arkwright's Water-Frame was built.


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