Sentence examples similar to Crompton's mule from inspiring English sources
Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
Still a third machine, Samuel Crompton's "mule" (1779), vastly increased productivity, making it possible for a single operator to work more than 1,000 spindles simultaneously, and it was capable of spinning fine as well as coarse yarn.
Our mule looked like everyone else's mule".
He created the "automatic" spinning mule: an exacting, high-speed, reliable rethinking of Crompton's original creation.
Richmal Crompton's Just William books.
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Several further modifications were introduced in Britain and the United States, but the Crompton mule effectively put yarn spinning on a mass production basis.
