ABC had Ted Koppel for their late night guy, and Drew Carey became their prime-time guy. Bruce Helford was the show's executive producer from its start in 1995 to its end in 2004, as was Drew.
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide.
The only surviving example of a spinning mule built by the inventor Samuel Crompton About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin. It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i' th' Woodwheel, from the name of the house in which he and his family now lived. The mule-jenny later became known as the spinning mule.