Abstract
ON December 14 at the Science Museum a public lecture was given by Mr. F. Nasmith, under the auspices of the Newcomen Society, to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning machine known as the water frame and the founder of the factory system of cotton manufacture as we know it to-day. In introducing Mr. Nasmith, Mr. H. W. Dickinson, president of the Society, said that it is one of the aims of the Society to direct attention to the great inventors and engineers who are among the world's chief benefactors, and it is of interest to recall the remark of Lecky the historian, who said that it was largely the cotton mill and the steam engine which enabled Great Britain to stand the strain of the Napoleonic wars, and that Arkwright and Watt deserved statues as much as Wellington and Nelson.
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