What is Samuel Crompton?
[[File:Baines_1835-Mule_Jenny.png|thumb|An early spinning mule: showing the [[Gear|gears]] ]] '''Samuel Crompton''' (3 December 1753 – 26 June 1827) was an English [[inventor]]. Building on the work of [[James Hargreaves]], who invented the [[Spinning jenny]], and [[Richard Arkwright]] who invented the [[spinning frame]] he invented the [[spinning mule]], a machine that changed the industry worldwide. He was born in [[Bolton]] and worked on spinning jennies when he was a boy. He got money by playing the [[violin]] at the Bolton theatre and used it to pay for materials. The first mule was made in 1779. It was used to make [[muslin]]. He did not have enough money to take out a [[patent]] so other people copied his invention without paying him.<ref>{{Citation|title=Crompton, Samuel|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Crompton,_Samuel|work=1911 Encyclopædia Britannica|volume=7|access-date=2023-04-24}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Crompton, Samuel}} [[Category:People from Bolton]] [[Category:English inventors]] [[Category:1753 births]] [[Category:1827 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}