Question

How did Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot Lowell change and advance American manufacturing?












They put up huge amounts of their own capital to hire as many people as possible to increase production.

They took production and machinery plans from England and improved them to start the textile industry in America.

They persuaded English investors to share their techniques and ideas to get the American textile industry going.

They invented machines that not only separated the cotton, but also sorted it according to grades and strengths.

Answer 1

At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton textiles. In fact, Britain became so dominant in textile manufacturing and trading that Manchester, its industrial capital, was nicknamed "Cottonopolis." By contrast, American manufacturing of export-oriented or even tradable-quality cotton textiles was practically nonexistent. This position of relative American backwardness changed with the influence of two prominent individuals: Samuel Slater (1768-1835) and Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817). Slater, a skilled British textile machinery engineer helped to develop the country's first cotton spinning mill. Lowell, a member of a prominent New England mercantile family, established the first integrated cotton spinning and weaving facility in what became the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. Together Slater and Lowell brought the sophistication of British industrial revolution technology and introduced innovative methods of factory production to the United States.

Source: https://hbr.org/product/Samuel-Slater---Francis-C/an/814065-PDF-ENG

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