Crompton Invents the Spinning Mule
1779
Samuel Crompton, working in Bolton by night to keep the design secret, combined Arkwright's water frame with Hargreaves's jenny to make a machine that spun yarn both fine and strong. It needed neither the river's pull nor the cottage's patience. Britain's cotton mills now had the tool that would beat Indian muslin.
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Also in 1779 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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