Arkwrights. Spinners of fortune
Details:
- Author(s) Fitton, R S
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1989
- Pages 322pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Intellectual property inc patents, trade marks, designs & copyright inc management
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Biography of Sir Richard Arkwright, 1732-92, and also providing some coverage of his son, Sir Richard Arkwright, 1755-1843. Full coverage of patent issues. Much about associates, eg Peter Nightingale, Jedediah Strutt, Boulton & Watt. Family trees of Arkwright family, from William Arkwright of c17th century, and of Charles and Susanna Hunt. . Has chapters: 'Arkwright in Lancashire'; 'Partners and patents'; 'The Arkwright empire'; 'The great patent trials - Arkwright on the offensive'; 'The great patent trials - Rex v Arkwright'; 'The Arkwright system'; 'The knight's last years'; 'The second Arkwright - a fortune made'; 'The second Arkwright - a family founded'