I don't know how you are modded down because the irony is that the whole situation is historical speaking very hypocritical. Was it not for Samuel Slater that

I don't know how you are modded down because the irony is that the whole situation is historical speaking very hypocritical. Was it not for Samuel Slater that "stole" British inventions without regards for patents and improved further on them, he would not be regarded as "the father of the American Industrial Revolution".