Samuel Crompton Professions : Inventor Born : December 3, 1753 Died : June 26, 1827 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Samuel Crompton [The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world. Samuel Crompton perfect desire science 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. Samuel Crompton giving-up eye mean Similar Authors Arthur P. Warner inventor Arthur Fry inventor Bill Lear inventor Itzhak Bentov inventor Dr. An Wang inventor David Dunbar Buick inventor All Authors
