carding machine, part
date: label: date made
content: 1790
name: label: maker
content: Slater, Samuel
notes: label: Description
content: Samuel Slater’s cotton carding machine, built in 1790, was based on the English system of machine carding, which he introduced in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Samuel Slater, considered the father of the American cotton industry, came to America in 1789 from England. He acquired his knowledge of textile machinery in England as an apprentice in the Arkwright system of carding and spinning cotton. His cotton carding machine is only one of two pieces of original Slater machinery still in existence.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11196.000
label: accession number
content: 13137
label: catalog number
content: T11196B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Carding Machine, Part
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 59 in x 97 in x 48 in; 149.86 cm x 246.38 cm x 121.92 cm