Spinning Mule
Crompton develops the spinning mule, combining features of earlier spinning machines.
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Samuel Crompton Biography and Timeline
Follow Samuel Crompton through 4 dated historical records for Great Britain.
Samuel Crompton, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
4Distinct records
1 of 1Page
1779–1779Years on this page
1779
Industrial Revolution
Samuel Cromptons Spinning Mule, introduced in 1779, was a combination of the spinning jenny and the water frame in which the spindles were placed on a carriage, which went through an operational sequence during which the rollers.
Industrial Revolution
stopped while the carriage moved away from the drawing roller to finish drawing out the fibres as the spindles started rotating, Cromptons mule was able to produce finer thread than hand spinning and at a lower cost.
Invention of Spinning Mule
Invents the spinning mule, a combination of the ideas of Cartwright & Hargreaves
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.