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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Samuel Slater
One-page profile of influential innovator, Samuel Slater, whose ideas made him the "father of the American factory system" in the early 1800s.
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Pbs: Who Made America? Samuel Slater
Slater divided factory work into such simple steps that children aged four to ten could do it -- and did. While such child labor is anathema today, American children were traditionally put to work around the farm as soon as they could...