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, the ...
Richard Arkwright was born in 1732, the 13th child of a Preston tailor. He never went to school, but was taught by his cousin, became apprenticed to a barber, and set up shop in Bolton. Then, thinking ...
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