Changes to a heritage listing to highlight a Derbyshire industrialist's links to slavery have been welcomed. Sir Richard Arkwright was an 18th Century inventor and businessman who helped start the ...

Grade II-listed building to get £1.2m revamp. THE historic former home of inventor Sir Richard Arkwright in Preston city centre is set to be restored and modernised by Kirkham-based Croft Goode ...

ON December 14 at the Science Museum a public lecture was given by Mr. F. Nasmith, under the auspices of the Newcomen Society, to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Richard Arkwright ...

After Hargreaves was granted a patent for his invention in 1770, ... It was an offshoot of the jenny that borrowed facets of another contemporary invention, Richard Arkwright’s water frame, ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machines Richard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in ... his invention.

Early examples of the phenomena include Joseph Wright of Derby's Arkwright's Cotton Mills by Night (1782), in which he painted a Derbyshire cotton mill owned by Richard Arkwright, inventor of the ...

Richard Arkwright's inventions allowed him to dominate the early cotton industry. ... Sir Richard Arkwright was an 18th Century inventor and businessman who helped start the modern factory system.