Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) to Ellen and Thomas Arkwright was an Englishman credited with the spinning frame — later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power. The spinning frame — a massive leap forward from the spinning jenny of James Hargreaves — was developed in 1769, and the world's first water-powered cotton mill was built in 1771 at Cromford, Derbyshire, (now one of the Derwent Valley Mills) creating one of the catalysts for the Industrial Revolution. He was knighted in 1786. He also created another factory, Mason Mill shortly after his first. The factory was made from red brick which was expensive at the time he built it.
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