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Who Stole the Secret to the Industrial Revolution? - The Real Story behind Richard Arkwright and the Water Frame (Hardcover)
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Who Stole the Secret to the Industrial Revolution? - The Real Story behind Richard Arkwright and the Water Frame (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 320
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English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright
invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial
Revolution and the factory system.' That is simply not true. The
water-powered spinning frame and the modern factory system' were
pioneered in Italy over 300 years before Richard Arkwright was
born. This book tells the story of how the Industrial Revolution in
textile manufacture really began. Not in England with Richard
Arkwright and the English cotton industry, but in Italy, with
Italian Renaissance engineers and the Italian silk industry. Proof
lies in the achievements of medieval Italian engineering, English
archives and English legal case records. Italy was the leading
technological power in Europe from the 13th to the 17th centuries.
The Italian Renaissance and the devastation caused by the Black
Death (1347-49) brought forth a wealth of technological innovation
and invention and the Italians automated much of the production of
silk fabrics, using water as their power source, because there were
no longer enough people left alive to carry out the work. English
organzine was inferior to Italian organzine. In the first recorded
case of industrial espionage a young Derby engineer resolved to
steal Italian silk manufacturing secrets. Water powered silk
throwing machinery, reconstructed by John Lombe from his stolen
plans and drawings, provided the blueprint for water powered cotton
spinning machinery (water frame), and Cromford Mill, (built 1771),
was modelled on Derby Silk Mill (built 1719). This book marks the
300th anniversary of John Lombe's premature death. Part of the
mystery surrounding his actions is why has the truth been concealed
for so long and why has the Italian connection remained
unacknowledged? It is time to place this episode of history in a
proper context, to set the record straight, and to fully
acknowledge the part played by Italy in the English Industrial
Revolution.
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