Object Details
- Slater, Samuel
- Description
- Samuel Slater’s cotton carding machine, built in 1790, was based on the English system of machine carding, which he introduced in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Samuel Slater, considered the father of the American cotton industry, came to America in 1789 from England. He acquired his knowledge of textile machinery in England as an apprentice in the Arkwright system of carding and spinning cotton. His cotton carding machine is only one of two pieces of original Slater machinery still in existence.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry
- 1790
- ID Number
- TE.T11196.000
- accession number
- 13137
- catalog number
- T11196
- Object Name
- Carding Machine, Part
- Measurements
- overall: 59 in x 97 in x 48 in; 149.86 cm x 246.38 cm x 121.92 cm
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1080980
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-d1f1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
