Arkwright's Spinning Machine Invention 1915 Ad Trade Card

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Arkwright's Spinning Machine Invention 1915 Ad Trade Card
NOTE:
THESE ARE NOT POSTCARDS
THEY ARE TRADE/ADVERTISING CARDS.
THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN A STANDARD POSTCARD
AND
THERE IS ADVERTISING TEXT ON THE BACK!
THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL 1915 TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
ARKWRIGHT'S SPINNING MACHINE
Richard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he learnt that he
could make a lot of money if he could invent a machine to spin cotton fibre into yarn, or
thread, quickly and easily. He teamed up with a clockmaker called John Kay and by the late
1760's they had a workable machine that could spin four strands of cotton yarn at the same
time. Arkwright paid for a patent in 1769 to stop others copying his invention.
He built spinning machine that could spin  96 strands of yarn at once. It was one of many
similar machines installed in mills in Derbyshire and Lancashire and powered by waterwheels,
so they werecalled Water Frames. Now it is the only complete machine of its kind in the
world. His machines did not need skilled operators so Arkwright paid unskilled women and
others to work on them. His spinning mills were the earliest examples of factories where
hundreds of workers had to keep pace with the speed of the machines.
GREAT IMAGE!
THE REVERSE SIDE HAS TEXT ABOUT THE IMAGE ON THE FRONT SIDE
SEE IMAGES ABOVE
THE CARD DIMENTIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
NOTE:
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS LARGER THAN THE CARD
TO SHOW THE DETAIL.
THIS IS 100+ YEARS OLD
IT IS NOT PERFECT
THERE MAY BE VERY SLIGHT PAPER LOSS OTHER FLAWS
SEE IMAGES ABOVE!
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