“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.”
Quote by Samuel Crompton
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Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor known for his innovations in the textile industry. He is most famous for inventing the water frame, which greatly improved the efficiency of cotton yarn production. more
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