His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

Sugar cane was introduced to Hispaniola from the Canary Islands, and the first sugar mill in the New World was established in 1516, on Hispaniola.

The first self-acting ram pump was invented by the Frenchman Joseph Michel Montgolfier ( best known as a co-inventor of the hot air balloon ) in 1796 for raising water in his paper mill at Voiron.

Using two sets of rollers that travelled at different speeds, it was later used in the first cotton spinning mill.

He created the cotton mill which brought the production processes together in a factory, and he developed the use of power — first horse power and then water power — which made cotton manufacture a mechanised industry.

Arguably the first was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, operational by 1721.

Thomas Somers and the Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787, the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of its era, and a significant milestone in the research and development of cotton mills in the future.

Daniel Day established a wool carding mill in the Blackstone Valley at Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1809, the third woollen mill established in the U. S. ( The first was in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.

Lowell and his partners built America's second cotton-to-cloth textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, second to the Beverly Cotton Manufactory After his death in 1817, his associates built America's first planned factory town, which they named after him.

By the 8th century first Iranians and then Arabs had imported the craft of papermaking from China, with a paper mill already at work in Baghdad in 794.

The first wire mill in Great Britain was established at Tintern in about 1568 by the founders of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works, who had a monopoly on this.

* The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.

Players must remove any other pieces first before removing a piece from a formed mill.

Arthur Evans was born in Nash Mills, England, the first child of John Evans and Harriet Ann Dickinson, the daughter of John's employer, inventor and founder of Messrs John Dickinson, a paper mill.

The first cotton mill opened in 1825, and 14 years later the first steam-powered factory in both Poland and Russia commenced operations.

Trying to calm her mind, during Fersen's first visit, and later after his return on 7 June 1784, the queen occupied herself with the creation of the Hameau de la reine, a model hamlet in the garden of the Petit Trianon with a mill and 12 cottages, 9 of which are still standing.

Barmakids, who were instrumental in building Baghdad ; introduced the world's first recorded paper mill in Baghdad, thus beginning a new era of intellectual rebirth in the Abbasid domain.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

Livingstone's experience from age 10 to 26 in H. Monteith's Blantyre cotton mill, first as a piecer and later as a spinner, was also important.

In 1879, at the beginning of the Industrial Era, the first steam mill was erected in London.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

The lyrebird is capable of imitating almost any sound and they have been recorded mimicking human caused sounds such as a mill whistle to a cross-cut saw, chainsaws, car engines and car alarms, fire alarms, rifle-shots, camera shutters, dogs barking, crying babies, music, and even the human voice.

Loddon watermill was sometimes known as Chedgrave mill and is one of the earliest recorded buildings in the town.

There are no known historical archeological sites within Columbia, as recorded by the MHPC however some sites have been identified by residents including the silica mines, various mill sites, the baseline and the bean factory.

A priest, church and mill were recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, which refers to the town as " Ghigesburg ".

The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded 35 households and a mill in the manor.

The earliest recorded flour explosion took place in an Italian mill in 1785, but there have been many since.

Wivenhoe is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wiivnhou when it formed part of the land of Robert Gernon, where there was a mill, of meadow and pasture for 60 sheep.

The earliest known record of improvements to the river is recorded in a document of 1325 from the Dean and Chapter of Wells Cathedral, where it was proposed to widen the river between Ham Mill and a new mill which was to be built at Knapp.

Work on building the mill started in 1791 and it was first recorded as working in 1797.

A fulling mill at Chadderton by the River Irk was recorded during the Elizabethan era, and during the Early Modern period the weavers of Chadderton had been using spinning wheels in makeshift weavers ' cottages to produce woollens.

In variants from Scotland recorded by Edwin Sidney Hartland in 1891, the ring is replaced by a cavern or an old mill.

Historically a part of Surrey, at the time of the Norman conquest of England Croydon had a church, a mill and around 365 inhabitants, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Throughout the medieval period and until the late 18th century, the principal employment in Bulkington had been agriculture: of meadowland were recorded in 1086 ; further, windmills are recorded for Weston and Marston Jabbet, and a water mill in Bramcote.

A mill is recorded at Drayton by 1194 ; at Congreve, Pillaton, and Rodbaston in the 13th century ; at Whiston in the 14th ; and at Mitton in the 15th.

These would therefore have been the earliest recorded examples of a tidal mill system.

The Domesday Book records a mill being present on the site in 1086-one of the five mills recorded as part of the great manor of Bramley.

An observer recorded that the bodies of the rebel knights who tried to cross the Orne were so numerous that bloated bodies blocked the mill of Barbillon as the river carried them downstream en masse.

There was a mill recorded here in Domesday book and 1328 there is a reference to " Richard atte Lock of Bray " occupying a weir called Braibrok.

With a watermill having been recorded at Bromborough at the time of the Domesday Survey, Bromborough watermill was likely to have been the oldest mill site on the Wirral.

England's first recorded paper mill, which was the property of one John Tate, stood in Hertford from near the very end of the 15th century.

The first recorded attempt to extract useful work from a Manitoba river was in 1829 at a flour mill ( known as Grant's Mill ) located on Sturgeon Creek in what is now Winnipeg.