Slater's Dream: Slater's Cotton Spinner
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Shows Samuel Slater, a young Englishman who came to America in 1790, struggling to reconstruct from memory the cotton spinner, the plan of which England guarded to insure a monopoly on cotton manufacture. Observes that, unable to reconstruct the English machine, Slater perfects his own spinner and introduces a new industry to the United States.
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