The cotton spinning mills of New Lanark were founded in 1785 by David Dale, a Glasgow banker and industrialist. They were placed near the falls of the Clyde which provided water power, and Dale had a partnership with Arkwright for his spinning machinery.

From 1800, it was under the management of Robert Owen, Dale’s son-in-law, best-known on account of the measures he took to improve the condition of his workforce - the condition of his workforce : health insurance, a school for the children of the workmen, with original teaching methods, where pedagogical objects, such as mathematical volumes, were used, and children were taught the succession of historical periods with charts called ’streams of time’.

Cotton spinning mills of New Lanark

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Cotton spinning mills of New Lanark

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