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Samuel Cropton is born
The inventor of the Spinning Mule, Samuel Cropton, is born. -
Spinning Mule is invented
Samuel Cropton invents the "Spinning Mule" -
The Riot of the Spinning Mule
The Riot of 1779 was where people would break all the spinning machines. "Man not Machine!" they'd yell. To prevent this, Cropton took apart his mule and planned to reassemble it at a later date. -
Mule-jenny
Samuel produces the "mule-jenny" which was made out of Hall i' th' Wood. This invention was able to spin yarn that could be used in the manufacturing of Muslin -
Amount of mules
In 1812, a survey showed that there were over 4 million spinning mules in use. -
Automatic Mule is patented
Richard Roberts patents the automatic Spinning Mule -
Death
The inventor of the Spinning Mule, Samuel Cropton, dies.
