1960s<span> in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world and beyond.</span>
The start of the American Industrial Revolution<span> is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first </span>industrial<span> mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater's pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.</span>
