Day 42: Samuel Crompton Wrecked My Scrotum!

originally published February 11, 2012 If you had been lucky enough to have lived a hundred years ago, you might have been able to snag (there may a pun here, I’m not entirely sure) a job using a mule spinner. This was a large piece of machinery, invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779-ish, that spun […]