A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and ma

A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industr

As a working cotton mill, a space for varied types of manufacturing, and eventually as a project of historical preservation, the Slater Mill has played many rol

An illustrated history of the cradle of American industrialization