why was richard arkwirght so succsessful

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Why was Richard Arkwright so successful?

Richard Arkwright was born in Preston, Lancashire, England in 1732. In Preston he was a wig-maker of the best fashion. At that time the textile industry was experiencing a shortage of cotton threads. So Arkwright, in 1769 designed a spinning frame by which the cotton fibre was spun into threads. His father was a tailor and coming from a tailor’s family he new that spinning was a long and tiring process so he decided invent a device that would speed up the process, the spinning frame.

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Arkwright started working on his invention on the spinning frame in the 1760’s but it was not perfected until 1768. The spinning frame was very heavy and was not able to be powered by hand so horse power was used. Although the spinning frame was a fast and effective way of spinning the thread that was produced was of a low quality. However the thread was also strong and thick. The hand spinning workers, who supposed that their means of spinning would be destroyed by competition from the machine, forced the inventor to move to Nottingham.

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