Medical Definition of attitude. 1  1: the arrangement of the parts of the body : posture. 2  2a: a mental position with regard to a fact or stateb: a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state. 3  3: an organismic state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus (as an object, concept, or situation)
Spinning mills were introduced to the United States in 1790 by English-born mechinist and businessman Samuel Slater (1768â1835). The twenty-one year old had worked as a textile laborer for more than six years in an English mill, where he learned about the workings of a cotton-spinning machine invented (1783) by Richard Arkwright (1732â92).
Building on that success, Slater with his partner, Moses Brown, began the construction of additional mills in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. One of Slater's earliest mills completed in 1793, became the prototype for early New England mills and still stands as a cotton mill museum in Pawtucket.