Samuel Slater's Machine

American Trail. Blazed in blood. Defended in blood. Chapter 5.

Samuel Slater's Machine. The year 1789. A young man set sail from England for New York. His name was Samuel Slater. I met him soon after he came to this country. I tried to take the 66 long days that took him to cross the ocean.

Standing there on the deck of the sailing ships. wretched lonely terribly homesick for his native England. He never got over that feeling, yet he never went down. In those days Alexander Hamilton had said we should encourage the importation of new adventures from abroad.

One of the men who agreed with him was a Rhode Island businessman named Moses Brown. Soon after Samuel arrived in this country he went to Providence to see Mr Brown. So tell me Slater, these are cried cotton mills in England.

They must be something. Yes, they are. Quite something. You worked for these fellows, Strut and Ocra. For some time. You know, we're offering a reward to anyone who can duplicate these English machines. The reward induced me to come over here.

Oh, my boy. We'll see you get all the cooperation you need. You claim you actually build one of these machines? With no trouble, sir. Oh. You have the plans? Design, patents? Oh, no. You can't take plans or patents out of England.

Howen blazes I've memorized everything memorized and just how would you go about building a cotton mill in this country? well first of all I'll have to find some good iron workers and carpenters then Teach them how machine parts are made Samuels confidence impressed Moses Brown. He brought Samu to pot-tucket to start work on the cotton mill