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 1789 the Pennsylvania legislature placed an advertisement in English newspapers offering a cash bounty to any English textile worker who would migrate to the state. Samuel Slater, who was just finishing an apprenticeship in a Derbyshire textile mill, read the ad. He went to London, booked passage to America, and landed in Philadelphia. On December 21, 1790, the mill opened. Seven boys and 2 girls, all between the ages of 7 and 12, operated the little factory's 72 spindles.