The life and times of Samuel Crompton
Subtitle: inventor of the spinning machine called the mule. With an appendix of original documents, including a paper on the origin of spinning by rollers, read by Robert Cole ... to the British association for the advancement of science.
By: By Gilbert J. French.
Contributors: Cole, Robert.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: T. Dinham & co.; [ect., etc.]
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Crompton, Samuel, 1753-1827; Spinning
Notes: "This memoir ... had its origin in two lectures delivered to the members of the Boston Mechanics institution in the winter session of 1858-59."--Pref.