Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America. with Remarks on the Moral Influence of Manufactories in the United States
- Full-Leather
- Philadelphia: Printed at No. 46, Carpenter Street, 1836
Philadelphia: Printed at No. 46, Carpenter Street, 1836. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Rebound in full leather with gilt titles and rules. Faint scattered foxing. 1836 Full-Leather. 448 pp. Eighteen illustrations, including plates and fold-outs. Andrew Jackson called Slater the Father of the American Factory System, though the British called him 'Slater the Traitor' for implementing British manufacturing techniques in the United States. He used the knowledge gleaned from his apprenticeship to a British industry pioneer to design and build the first American textile mills. This volume includes illustrations of textile machinery such as spinning wheels and looms.
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Title
Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America. with Remarks on the Moral Influence of Manufactories in the United States
Author
White, George S
Binding
Full-Leather
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Printed at No. 46, Carpenter Street: Philadelphia
Date
1836
Edition
Second Edition