The fol-lowing year, Moses Brown opened the firstfactory in the United States to house Slater’smachines in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. But the Pawtucket factory mass-produced only onepart of finished cloth, the thread.In 1813, Francis Cabot Lowell of Bostonand four other investors revolutionized theAmerican textile industry. In 1789, however, a young British mill worker named SamuelSlater emigrated to the United States.