"In the year 1780, there were twenty Water Frame factories, the property of Mr. Arkwright, or of persons who had paid …"

"About the year 1767, one Hargrave, of Blackburn, in , constructed an engine that would at once spin twenty or thirty …"

"Mr. Arkwright, after many years intense and painful application, invented, about the year 1768, his present method of…"

"No sooner were the merits of Mr. Arkwright’s inventions fully understood, from the great increase of materials produc…"

"The difficulties which Arkwright encountered in organizing his factory system, were much greater than is commonly ima…"

"A trial in Westminster Hall, in July last, at a large expence, was the consequence; when, solely by not describing so…"

"Mr. Richard Arkwright, after many years study, brought his spinning machinery to bear about 1768: he was a native of …"

"The manufacture of yarn being at length full established, the demand for it became too great for the patentees to sup…"

"To prevent his inventions getting abroad to foreigners, Mr. Arkwright purposely omitted to give so full and particula…"

"Arkwright's machines require so few hands, and those only children, with the assistance of an overlooker. A child can…"