The life and times of Samuel Crompton
Subtitle: inventor of the spinning machine called the mule
By: by Gilbert J. French ; with an appendix of original documents, including a paper on the origin of spinning by rollers read by Robert Cole, Esq., F.S.A., to the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Contributors: Cole, Robert
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: T. Dinham
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Inventors; Biography; Spinning machinery; Inventeurs; Biographies; Métiers à filer
Notes: "This memoir ... had its origin in two lectures delivered to the members of the Bolton Mechanics Institution in the winter session of 1858-59."--Pref. p. [vii].