Eli Whitney
The US textile industry was built around the growing of cotton. Some large cotton farms were known as plantations.
Francis Cabot Lowell
Francis Cabot Lowell
In 1789, Samuel Slater, a british worker, brought the secret of Britian's textile mills to North America. Slater built a machine to spin thread. In 1813, a group of Massachusetts investors built textile factories in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Francis Cabot Lowell built a cotton spinning and weaving mill in Waltham, Massachusets, USA during the war of 1812, based on his observations of British textile mills, he built the first factory to process raw cotton and produce finshed cloth under the same roof. Sir Richard Arkwright, (1732 - 92) pioneered the use of water and horse driven factories at Nottingham in England in 1769. In 1771 he moved to Derbyshire and was dominant in the early cotton industry. So the Brits win again.
The earliest mills were powered with horses or mules in a rotary turnstyle, as seen in the Beverly Cotton Manufactory, however later mills used water power, since that was less interruptable and provided more power for the factories.
The major accomplishments are when Henry Ford built the first automated truck and when Great Britain Created steam
Mainly in the eastern half of the US, cause the west wasn't explored yet. They were usually along rivers so that the water could be used as power. It was also more in the Northern half, like PA or NY.
This came straight out of my American History book. In 1789 Samuel Slater came to America from England. In Rhode Island Slater built factories that had spinning machines. Before long there were many textile mills in the North. This came off of Google. Samuel Slater was an English American.
Edmund Cartwright built and patented a power loom in 1785, and it was this that was adopted by the nascent cotton industry in England.
The first cotton-spinning factory in the United States was built by Samuel Slater in 1790 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Slater, often referred to as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," used his knowledge of British textile technology to establish the factory. This marked the beginning of the American textile industry and significantly contributed to the industrialization of the country.
In the 1840s, textile mills were primarily built in the northeastern United States, particularly in states like Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. These locations featured rivers and streams that provided the necessary water power for machinery. The growth of the textile industry in these areas was fueled by the availability of labor, including immigrants, and the establishment of factory towns. Additionally, the region's proximity to raw materials, such as cotton, contributed to the expansion of textile manufacturing.