Samuel
CROMPTON
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Born: 3 December 1753 in Firwood, England
Samuel CROMPTON died 26 June 1827 in Bolton, England.
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Recorded occupation: inventor of the spinning mule
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Birth — 17533 December 1753
Firwood, England
1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)
Death — 182726 June 1827
Bolton, England
He died at the age of 73.
Crompton Company, Crompton, Near Arctic, R.I., 1920
It was named after English inventor Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule. rhodetour.org
The company was founded in 1807 as the Providence Manufacturing Co. in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and by 1808 was operating a cotton mill. Its name changed in 1823 to Crompton Co., and it expanded to include a bleachery and by 1832 calico printing.
rmc.library.cornell.edu
Crompton Mill, home of the “Velvet Mills,” the first U.S. company to manufacture velveteens and corduroys, by 1888 employed 600 and operated 40,000 spindles and 1,000 looms in buildings on the west and east side of the river. Sadly the west building, built in 1882-85, burned in 1992 due to arson... rhodetour.org
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