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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 267,318 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Samuel Crompton is the 112th most popular inventor (up from 122nd in 2019), the 908th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 966th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Inventor.

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

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  • 270k

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  • 60.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Crompton ranks 112 out of 354. Before him are William Webb Ellis, Joseph Pilates, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Zacharias Janssen, Mary the Jewess, and André Michelin. After him are Percy Spencer, Johann Philipp Reis, Theobald Boehm, Elias Howe, Alfred Krupp, and Clément Ader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Samuel Crompton ranks 13. Before him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Franz Karl Achard, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Josef Dobrovský, Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and Shaykh Ahmad. Among people deceased in 1827, Samuel Crompton ranks 9. Before him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, and Wilhelm Hauff. After him are Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, Ernst Chladni, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Wilhelm Müller, and George Canning.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Crompton ranks 908 out of 7,765. Before him are Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Joan Collins (1933), Natasha Richardson (1963), and Brian Josephson (1940). After him are H. H. Asquith (1852), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), William Henry Perkin (1838), Dave Gahan (1962), Antony Hewish (1924), and David I of Scotland (1084).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Samuel Crompton ranks 20. Before him are James Hargreaves (1720), Henry Bessemer (1813), John Harrison (1693), Edmund Cartwright (1743), W. O. Bentley (1888), and William Webb Ellis (1806). After him are Clive Sinclair (1940), John Kay (1704), Robert Stirling (1790), Jethro Tull (1674), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), and David Edward Hughes (1831).

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