Cromford Mill is the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill...
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nearby Cromford Mill, which he built outside the village in 1771. Cromford is in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Cromford mill complex...
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could be produced by unskilled workers. Cromford Mill was the site of Arkwright's first mill, with nearby Cromford village significantly expanded for his...
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Richard Arkwright (category People from Cromford)
through the methods developed in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire (now preserved as part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site). Richard Arkwright...
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The Cromford Canal ran 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometres) from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton. Built by William...
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Factory (redirect from Factory mills)
tomorrow". Venetian Arsenal Cromford Mill Lombe's Mill Soho Manufactory Portsmouth Block Mills Slater Mill Historic Site Lowell Mills Springfield Armory Harpers...
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of Cromford and the surrounding area. The parish is important because it was here that Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill, Cromford Mill...
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A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill. Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a...
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Factory system (section Mills)
factories[citation needed] and the Derwent Valley Mills. After he patented his water frame in 1769, he established Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, England. The factory...
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at an experimental stage, Arkwright and his partners started work on Cromford Mill in Derbyshire, which "was to prove a major turning point in the history...
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can be made for John Lombe's silk mill in Derby (1721), or Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill (1771). The Cromford Mill was purpose-built to accommodate...
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station Ratingen: Textilfabrik Cromford (textiles factory), the first factory in continental Europe, named after the Cromford Mill Solingen: Gesenkschmiede...
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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution (category Textile mills in England)
labour in textile factories. Cromford Mill was an early Arkwright mill and was the model for future mills. The site at Cromford had year-round supply of warm...
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founded the world's first successful water powered cotton spinning mill in Cromford in 1771. The society was founded after a festival in 1971 to commemorate...
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Retrieved 27 June 2015. "About Cromford Mill". Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2012. "Cromford Mills – birthplace of the industrial...
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Water frame (section Cromford)
built a water-powered mill in Cromford, Derbyshire. In 1771, Arkwright installed the water frame in his cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, on the River...
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Textilfabrik Cromford in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was built in 1783 by Johann Gottfried Brügelmann. It was the first cotton spinning mill on the...
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small mill stream, and Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill, the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, only used a small tributary of the Derwent...
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[citation needed] The Cromford Canal passes through the village, which was an important transport route to and from Arkwright's Cromford Mill in the 19th century...
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continuous processes of today were originally batch operations. The Cromford mill of 1771, designed by Richard Arkwright, was the first factory to use...
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Erewash Canal in Derbyshire. The wharf stands on Mill Lane opposite Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill, and surviving buildings include two warehouses -...
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Samuel Slater (section Mill development)
work at the cotton mill opened that year by Jedediah Strutt using the water frame pioneered by Richard Arkwright at nearby Cromford Mill. In 1782, his father...
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Lumsdale Valley (section Industrial mills)
March 2020. "Lumsdale | Cromford Mills". www.cromfordmills.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2020. "Explore Lumsdale" (PDF). Cromford Mills - Lumsdale. Retrieved...
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water frame to use the extra power of a water mill. His first mill was the Cromford Mill in 1771. Masson Mill is the third, and was built close by to take...
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marriage, and after his death in 1824, Richard Arkwright Junior of Cromford Mill fame, became the owner. William Arkwright of Sutton Scarsdale was High...
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Mill – another mill using the Paul-Wyatt machinery, opened by Daniel Bourn in Leominster some time between 1744 and 1748 Cromford Mill – opened by Richard...
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blast-furnaces, forges, rolling mills and other metallurgical establishments of England, Wales and Scotland. The Cromford Mill, starting from 1772, ran day...
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architect Thomas Gardner for the residents of Richard Arkwright’s mill in Cromford. Construction was completed during 1792-97. After Sir Richard Arkwright...
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region can claim the world's first factory, Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill. Additionally, the world's oldest working factory can also be found...
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