The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Machine Called The Mule. With an Appendix of Original Documents ...
Manchester: Thomas Dinham & Co., 1860. Second Edition. Hardcover. Red textured cloth, gilt letters and decoration on spine, 299 pp., 7 BW illus., most are fold-outs. G+ (Overall in good shape; original binding has sunned or faded to brown at spine and along edges; only slight aging otherwise; SIGNED BY ROBERT COLE on tp.). Item #144208
Biography of violinist and English inventor Samuel Crompton (1753-1827), whose spinning mule revolutionized the textile industry. Signed on title page by Robert Cole, who is referenced in the Preface as the author of a paper on Lewis Paul's invention and patent.
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