Industrial genius Samuel Slater
By: by Lewis S. Miner.
Publisher: J. Messner
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Slater, Samuel, 1768-1835.; Slater, Samuel, 1768-1835.
Description: A biography of the Englishman who, concerned over the heavy human toll the Industrial Revolution was taking in England, left for America despite laws trying to keep textile workers from emigrating, and established the American textile industry.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 179.