Both Francis Cabot Lowell and Samuel Slater imported technological advances from Great Britain.
Francis Cabot Lowell was an American textile manufacturer of the early nineteenth century. In 1810, he visited the textile region of Lancashire, England, which allowed him to import into America the technologies of the first entrepreneurs of British cotton.
Samuel Slater is considered one of the fathers of the American textile industry, the American president Andrew Jackson described him as the "father of the American industrial revolution".
Born in Derbyshire, England, into a family of eight children, Samuel Slater began working at the age of ten in the Jedediah Strutt factory using Richard Arkwright's inventions, close by in the Cromford Mill. In 1782, Samuel lost his father and he left for New York in 1789 because he understood the advantage of exporting British technology, even if the law prohibited it.