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Innovation in cotton spinning.
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Itinerant barber and hair
merchant.
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Persuades Nottingham
hosiers to back large-scale
water-driven factories.
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Makes strong warp thread,
allowing all-cotton cloth.
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Arkwright dies with a
fortune of
£500,000.
Mather Brown, Portrait of Sir Richard Arkwright
(1790).
New Britain Museum of American Art.
Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792)
