Hannah Wilkinson Slater
Personal Information
Born: 1774
Died: 1812
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
unknown
Professional Life
Field of Study: Textiles; Inventor
Institution/Corporation: none
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Female Beneficent Society (Co-founder 1809)
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2006 National Inventors Hall of Fame; 2022 Pawtucket Hall of Fame
Achievements: "Received patent under the name ""Mrs. Samuel Slater"" but all records were destroyed in patent office fire of 1836; founded the 1st Sunday School in America where she taught math reading & social studies; "
Invented a method of producing sewing thread from cotton; likely inspired by mills run in England by her husband H. Samuel Slater
Patent for her thread was issued to Mrs. Samuel Slater
Was active in religious & welfare organizations in Pawtucket, RI community where she lived
Gave birth to 10 children; 4 died in infancy or childhood; she died at 37, 2 weeks after the birth of her last child, from complications of childbirth
All her patent records were destroyed in the 1836 fire at the patent office