Who is known as the Father of the American Factory System?

Who is known as the Father of the American Factory System?

Answer #1

Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the “Founder of the American Industrial Revolution” because he brought British textile technology to America. A native of England, he trained as an engineer and violated a British emigration law in 1789 that was designed to keep manufacturing technology within the country when he left for New York in disguise. He soon found work in Rhode Island replicating British factory equipment for a textile mill, and earned the owner’s backing to design and build the first water powered mill in the United States.

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