Richard Arkwrights Success - Yr8

What is the name of a factory that produces a particular type of material?

• a cottage

• a mill

• Arkwright

• water frame

How did Arkwright get successful?

• He found workers by building cottages

• He got a patent to protect his invention

• He expanded his business and got very very wealthy

• Arkwright invented the 'spinning frame'

• He built the first factory in Cromford

When did Arkwright build his first factory?

• 1751

• 1761

• 1781

• 1771

What made Arkwright's cotton mills successful and productive?

• Improved organisation and management of production

• Advanced machinery that used electricity

• Skilled workers from foreign countries

• Large money investment from other people

Arkwright saw the potential to make ​ (a)   and he went into partnership with ​ (b)   businessmen. He used his partners’ money to get a ​ (c)   .

• four
• ten
• patent
• factory
• money
• clothes

Match the Information together

• A Patent

• They filled up the factories and they could be operated by children.

• Children

• These were 2/3rds of his employees and he would not employ them under the age of 6.

• Water Frame

• This legally protected Arkwright’s design so no-one could copy his invention.

• The Factory

• This meant whole families could move to work at the factory and there was space for everyone.

• Building Cottages

• It enabled Arkwright to centralise the machines and workers into one space

Why did Arkwright get a patent?

• It was cheap to get at the time and helped him to get more workers.

• He copied the design for the 'water frame' from someone else and had to protect himself.

• Because his friends also got them for their designs.

• It legally protected his design and allowed him to take money from people who copied his design.

Tick the correct answers about the domestic system

• Before the 1750s most work was done in cottages by skilled craftsmen by hand

• They used steam powered machines to make textiles

• Workers could choose when they wanted to work

• All the work was done under one roof so that the managers could watch them

Tick the correct answers about the factory system

• Most workers were unskilled children. They were small so could fit inside the machines

• Most factories were open 24hrs and workers had to work long 12hr shifts at specific times

• Most workers moved from urban areas to rural areas

• 128 bobbins of thread could be produced at the same time by each machine

Why did Richard Arkwright become unpopular? Tick all the correct answers

• He demanded that people paid him if he thought that they had taken his design

• He took away a lot of land from families and other people in the country

• Some people claimed that he had ‘borrowed’ his ideas from other inventors

• He fired a lot of employees when he got angry and a lot of people lost their jobs