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Crompton, Samuel

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Inventor of the spinning-mule, born near Bolton; for five years he worked at his project, and after he got it into shape was tormented by people prying about him and trying to find out his secret; at last a sum was raised by subscription to buy it, and he got some £60 for it, by which others became wealthy, while he had to spend, and end, his days in comparative poverty, all he had to subsist on being a life annuity of £63 which some friends bought him (1753-1827).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Crompton, Samuel'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/crompton-samuel.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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