This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768 ... By 1800 Manchester had emerged as the world's first industrial city and the centre of the world cotton trade.

This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768 ... By 1800 Manchester had emerged as the world's first industrial city and the centre of the world cotton trade.

Now it is the only complete machine of its kind in the world. His machines did not need skilled operators so Arkwright paid unskilled women and others to work on them. His spinning mills were the ...