Crompton completes the spinning mule
Samuel Crompton combined the jenny's moving carriage with the water frame's drafting rollers, producing yarn both strong and very fine. It allowed British muslins to compete with, and then undercut, the Indian cloth that had been the world standard. Crompton could not afford a patent and released the design for a subscription that never approached its value.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- The spinning mule · technology · United Kingdom · not located
- The British textile industry · industry sector · United Kingdom · not located
- Raw cotton · trade good · Imported to Lancashire from the Levant, the West Indies and the United States South · not located
Evidence
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
Cambridge University Press · 2009 · Partly verified
Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
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