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).
The first paper mill in North America was built by the Spanish in Mexico City in 1575. The first paper mill in what became the United States, built by Dutch papermaker William Rittenhouse, was constructed in 1690 near Philadelphia and used rags to produce paper.