The life and times of Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning machine called the mule By Gilbert James French, Samuel Crompton This book (first edition) can be read in full on Google _http://books.google.com/_ (http://books.google.com/) Put in "Samuel Crompton" Gives an interesting insight into life in Bolton both in the mid 18hundreds when it was written and in the late 17hundreds when SC was alive. Derek Crompton London South- East