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Crompton's mule

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Crompton's mule

Advanced spinning machine which made the production of fine yarns by machine possible, developed in 1779 in Bolton, England, by Samuel Crompton. It was a cross between the spinning jenny and a water-frame spinning machine. See also hand-loom weavers.



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