Word: cromford
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...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...
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