Hannah Slater (nÃÆ' Â © e Wilkinson , 1774 - 1812) was an early American pioneer and inventor. Some sources state that he was the first American woman to receive a patent, but another claimed that Mary Kies, in 1809, was the first.
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Slater grew up in a Quaker family in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, with two sisters, five brothers and parents Lydia and Oziel. His father was a successful businessman and business partner of Moses Brown, who in turn was in business with Samuel Slater, an industrialist. Brown recommended the Wilkinson house as a suitable place for Samuel Slater to ride when he arrived in the area in early 1790. At that time, Hannah was 15 years old.
Oziel and Lydia initially opposed Hannah to marry someone who was not a Quaker; but they relented and on October 2, 1791, Hannah and Samuel were married. That same year, Samuel opened his own factory in the area and started building machines to produce textiles, mimicking machines he knew in England. This factory has been preserved as a historical site and is known as the Slater Mill Historic Site.
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Adult life
Discovery
In 1793, Samuel Slater showed Hannah some fine threads she had spun from long Suriname cotton. He intends to use it to produce cloth; However, Hannah and her sister used the spinning wheel to turn it into a thread, and the resulting yarn proved to be stronger than the linen thread. In the same year, Hannah filed an application to the US Patent Office for a patent for discovery - a new method of producing sewing thread from cotton. The patent was issued in the name of "Mrs. Samuel Slater".
Community work
Slater was active in religious and welfare organizations in the Pawtucket community, such as the formation of the Sunday School of the village, and in 1809, a Women Lovers. Slater is the treasurer for the community and his sister, Lydia, is one of the directors.
Family
Slater bore 10 children, four of whom died in infancy or childhood. The well-known children and their birthdates are William (1796), Elizabeth (1798), Mary (1801), Samuel (1802), George (1804), John 1805), Horatio (1808), William (1809) and Thomas (1812).
Slater died in 1812 about two weeks after the birth of his last child, from labor complications. He is 37 years old. Her husband wrote in his memoir that after his death "the poor regrets him, whose charity and kindness they have experienced". Slater is buried in Mineral Spring Cemetery.
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