Castle Top Farm, where AU
lived until she was eighteen, was the great influence on her life. A friend said of her seventy-three years living elsewhere that she had been in exile most of...
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1759: Jedediah Strutt invented a machine frame...
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1759
Jedediah Strutt
invented a machine frame which revolutionised the manufacture of cotton goods.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1 August 1771: Richard Arkwright and David Thornley joined...
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1 August 1771
Richard Arkwright
and David Thornley
joined forces with Jedediah Strutt
and Samuel Need
to rent land on which to set up a factory by the River Derwent at Cromford in Derbyshire, so that Arkwright's...
