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Sir Titus Salt by Clay Lane

His alpaca-wool mills near Bradford proved the social benefits of private enterprise in the right hands.

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The Spinning Mule by Robert Chambers

It was not just his own family that wanted to know what Samuel Crompton was doing by night in his quaint Bolton workshop.

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By Harold Copping (1863-1932), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

‘Come in and Know Me Better’ by Clay Lane

Mill owner William Grant was deeply hurt by a scurrilous pamphlet circulated by a fellow businessman, and vowed the miscreant would live to regret it.

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Spinning Jenny by Clay Lane

James Hargreaves’s historic invention was not without its critics when it first appeared.

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The Tea-Cup Revolutionary by Clay Lane

Josiah Wedgwood, a village potter whose disability meant he could not use a potter’s wheel, brought about a quiet revolution in English society.

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By Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), via Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Fashionable Freedom by Thomas Clarkson

Josiah Wedgwood’s promotional gift made Abolitionism fashionable.

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Richard Arkwright by Clay Lane

Arkwright invented the factory, without which modern life would be impossible.

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