The Power of Water

Water can be serene, gentle and innocuous but is also powerful and relentless and was the initial driving force behind the industrial revolution in Britain
A genuine entrepreneur, Richard Arkwright, son of a Preston tailor who became a wig maker and financed his first inventions from a permanent dye he created for wigs, built a spinning frame, and patented a rotary carding engine and eventually put them both in the first real factory - a many-floored mill at Cromford which was powered by water.