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...factory, and by a machine." Factories, to be sure, predated the Industrial Revolution: during the 16th century, one Jack of Newbury employed more than 500 men, women and children at a plant in Berkshire, England. But the true father of the modern factory, most historians agree, was Richard Arkwright, who in the late 1760s or early 1770s installed several water-powered cotton-spinning machines at a workshop in Cromford. Thousands more installations were to follow...
...Even as a child, Wright was fascinated by things mechanical. He made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...
...history of economic theory is Gill's special interest, but he says that "personal predilections" only partly explain how Ricardo and Arkwright found their way into an introductory economics course. The first month of Ec 1 is designed, says Gill, "to convey the relativity of present economic conditions to institutions and ideas of the past, to relate economics to the rest of the social sciences...
Lemay, Nashua, N.H.; Eli Manos, Cleveland, Ohio; William Edward Monteith, Jr., Cambridge, Mass.; John Doane Nichols, Jr., Westport, Conn.; Gilbert, William O'Neil, Jr., Gloucester, Mass.; Arthur Michael Pappas, Auburn, Mass.; Henry Adams Rate, Iowa City, lowa; Robert Norman Stargel, Cincinnati, Ohio; Henry Terrell Toepke, Cheshire, Conn.; Richard Arkwright Richmond (manager). Winchester, Mass...
...Richard Arkwright Richmond '53, of Winchester and Winthrop House, is the winner of the sophomore football managerial competition, outgoing manager Charles J. Keever '51 announced last night. Richmond thus becomes varsity manager next season...