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Samuel Crompton
(3 Dec 1753 - 26 Jun 1827)
British inventor who contributed to the Industrial Revolution with his invention of the “spinning mule” to produce continuous, strong, fine yarn.
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Science Quotes by Samuel Crompton (2 quotes)
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.
— Samuel Crompton
'Extract from a manuscript document circulated by Crompton about the year 1809 or 1810', reprinted in The Basis of Mr. Samuel Crompton’s Claims to a Second Remuneration for his Discovery of the Mule Spinning Machine, (1868), 29.
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.]
[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.]
— Samuel Crompton
As quoted in James Mason, The Great Triumphs of Great Men (1875), 579.
See also:
- 3 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Crompton's birth.
- Samuel Crompton - biography
- Take a virtual walk around Samuel Crompton's home town of Bolton.
- Booklist for Samuel Crompton.