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Samuel Crompton

1753 - 1827

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Samuel Crompton (3 December 1753 – 26 June 1827) was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Crompton has received more than 285,004 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Samuel Crompton is the 127th most popular inventor (down from 112th in 2019), the 1,023rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 907th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Inventor.

Samuel Crompton was a British inventor who is most famous for inventing the spinning mule.

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  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Crompton ranks 127 out of 426. Before him are Josef Ressel, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, and Hugo Schmeisser. After him are Mary Anderson, Robert Adler, Elisha Gray, Richard Jordan Gatling, Gunther von Hagens, and W. O. Bentley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Samuel Crompton ranks 15. Before him are Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Franz Karl Achard, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Josef Dobrovský, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Shaykh Ahmad, and François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers. Among people deceased in 1827, Samuel Crompton ranks 13. Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Wilhelm Hauff, Maria Theresa of Austria, George Canning, Ugo Foscolo, and Ernst Chladni. After him are Wilhelm Müller, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Georgios Karaiskakis, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Robert Surcouf, and Morten Thrane Brünnich.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Crompton ranks 1,023 out of 8,785. Before him are Harriet Martineau (1802), John Mayall (1933), David Warner (1941), Saint David (512), Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871), and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806). After him are Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849), Emperor Norton (1818), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), Mary Mallon (1869), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), and Ricky Gervais (1961).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Samuel Crompton ranks 19. Before him are Henry Bessemer (1813), James Hargreaves (1720), Richard Arkwright (1732), William Webb Ellis (1806), John Harrison (1693), and Edmund Cartwright (1743). After him are W. O. Bentley (1888), John Kay (1704), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Robert Stirling (1790), William Murdoch (1754), and Elihu Thomson (1853).

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