SIR RICHARD ARKWRIGHT
(Dec. 23, 1732 - Aug. 3, 1792)
"ENGLISH INVENTOR AND TEXTILE INDUSTRIALIST"
*KNOWN FOR HIS "SPINNING MACHINERY"
Arkwright, Sir Richard (1732-92), Sir Richard Arkwright was born in the English seaport town of Preston in Lancashire. At the age of ten he became an apprentice in a barber's shop. While he was there he discovered a way of dyeing hair so that the color did not fade in the weather. He also made wigs and sold them in nearby towns and villages.
Arkwright watched the cotton weavers working in their homes. Although they used cotton thread from side to side of the loom, he noticed that they wove it in and out of Irish linen threads stretching from the top of the loom to the bottom. When he asked the reason for this, they said that they could not spin cotton thread which was fine enough or strong enough to use for the warp(which ran from end to end with cloth).
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