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Samuel Crompton

1753 - 1827

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Samuel Crompton (3 December 1753 – 26 June 1827) was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright, he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Crompton is the 122nd most popular inventor (up from 127th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,023rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Inventor.

Samuel Crompton was a British inventor who is most famous for inventing the spinning mule.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Crompton ranks 122 out of 426. Before him are Jacque Fresco, Robert Noyce, James Hargreaves, Edmund Cartwright, Theobald Boehm, and Franz Reichelt. After him are Hans von Ohain, Nikolai Kardashev, Paul Otlet, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., André Michelin, and Alfred Krupp.

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Among people born in 1753, Samuel Crompton ranks 14. Before him are Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Utamaro, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Franz Karl Achard, and Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès. After him are Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Josef Dobrovský, Shaykh Ahmad, and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux. Among people deceased in 1827, Samuel Crompton ranks 11. Before him are William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Maria Theresa of Austria, Wilhelm Hauff, and Ugo Foscolo. After him are Wilhelm Müller, George Canning, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, and Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Crompton ranks 1,160 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Atiyah (1929), Thomas Graham (1805), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), Hans Sloane (1660), Michael Jackson (1942), and James Mill (1773). After him are Graham Chapman (1941), John Franklin (1786), Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428), Petula Clark (1932), Arthur Hailey (1920), and Phil Taylor (1954).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Samuel Crompton ranks 20. Before him are John Harrison (1693), Richard Arkwright (1732), Henry Bessemer (1813), William Webb Ellis (1806), James Hargreaves (1720), and Edmund Cartwright (1743). After him are W. O. Bentley (1888), John Kay (1704), Robert Stirling (1790), Oliver Lodge (1851), Robert Watson-Watt (1892), and Charles Algernon Parsons (1854).

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