In the 1790s

If you were a British craftsmen in the 1790s the law would not allow you to leave Britain. Parliament didn't want the rest of the world to get their new technology.

Samuel Slater

1n 1789 a man named Samuel Slater pretended to be a farmer and stowed away to America. Slater had memorized how to build a mill, and in 1790 he built the first U.S. cotton mill in Rhode Island. Samuel was known as the father of the American Industrial Revolution.