
What is recorded here
Blue plaque re Sir Richard Arkwright, 8 Adam Street, WC2 is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) was an inventor and industrialist who developed the water frame for spinning cotton, significantly contributing to the mechanization of textile production during the Industrial Revolution.
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