Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
Images of the Cloth Manufacturing Industry

RichardArkwright

Richard Arkwright

     Two almost simultaneous developmental directions took place that resulted in the replacement of the household spinning wheel. Richard Awkright (originally a barber and peruke maker) developed a device that could spin yarn that was initially was a "trapiche", powered by a single horse. Hence initially, power was rated at ONE HP (one horse power).
     Awkright then moved towards more power, by spinning yarn, powered by a water mill (water-frames). The next step taken by Awkright was coupling power derived from a steam engine. In addition, Awkright used vertically oriented spindles but modeled on the "flying-bobbin" of the Saxony or Liepzig flax spinning wheel, sometimes referred to as a "throstle". By 1824, Charles Danforth replaced the early Awkright throstle (flying bobbins) by a more advanced throstle.


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RichardArkwright

Click to see Saxony Wheel Flyer & Bobbin

Saxony wheel flyer+bobbin

Click to see Richard Arkwright Family

RichardArkwright+family

Click to see Arkwright Water-frame

FILE0199 Arkwright water-frame 1769

Click to see Arkwright Children

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Click to see Arkwright's Cromford Mill
Water Frame, 1775

FILE0091 Water Frame from Cromford Mill

Click to see Arkwright Children

ArkwrightChildren

Click to see Water Wheel
(Coupled to Spinning Machines)

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Click to see the Arkwright Town House

Arkwright TownHouse

Click to see Spinning Mill
(Coupled to Water Wheel)

FILE0093 North Mill Belper

Click to see the Arkwright Country Estate

RockHouse

Click to see Details of
Throstle Spinning

FILE0176 Throstle Spinning Frame

Click to see Household Spinning Wheel

Jersey Wheel

Click to see Charles Danforth's Throstle
1824

Danforth Throstle

Click to see an Ox-driven Trapiche

Trapiche

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