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).
In 1785, a team of men and boys were sent from New Lanark to Arkwrightâs mill in Cromford, to be trained in their use. The Spinning Mule was invented by Samuel Crompton, and patented in 1779. It was called a mule because it was a cross between a water frame and a spinning jenny.