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Side view of the spinning mule perfected in 1779 by Samuel Crompton

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Side view of the spinning mule perfected in 1779 by Samuel Crompton (1753-1827) English inventor of Bolton, Lancashire. Crompton's mule made it possible to spin any yarn by machinery and was one of the inventions which revolutionised the British textile industry. Woodcut from "Great Industries of Great Britain" (London, c1889). Industrial Revolution.

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