Water frame during the Industrial Revolution Today I am going to explain to you something different and how it changed the world. Well an inventor that built the water frame machine was Englishman Richard Arkwright during the 1769. This helped and changed the world because now people aren’t making cloths with their hands. Before the machine was called water frame it was called the spinning machine. The spinning machine can spin up to 96 strands of yarn at once so it makes thousands of cotton threads all at once. Although it was first used in 1768 and was called the water frame because it’s powered by water, it meant that factories near rivers would be need to built the machine. He had all the family working in his mill and there were children