Richard Arkwright
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Arkwright
in the texts
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Inventor credited among the first fruits of machinery that contributed to English commercial supremacy
Hargreaves and Jennings, and Arkwright and Watt, the first fruits of machinery, and the early application of steam, piled up riches for England;
The Law of Intellectual Property
Inventor cited as an example of a great inventor subjected to degrading royal patent language.
Is it not nearly an infinite insult, that such men as Arkwright and Watt, who were of ten thousand times more value to mankind than all the kings and queens that time has ever produced, or ever will produce, should be necessitated to hold their natural rights to the products of their own labor, on such terms as these?