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Crompton, Samuel (1753–1827)


Samuel Crompton
English inventor of the spinning mule (1779), so-called because it was a cross between Richard Arkwright's water-frame machine and James Hargreaves' spinny jenny. Although the mule was a great advance on its progenitors, it made little money for its inventor. See also spinning.


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