Oberleutnant zur See Iwan Crompton, after returning to Germany from a prisoner-of-war camp, reported that Baralong had run down the lifeboat he was in ; he leapt clear and was shortly after taken Baralong.

Lewis's invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright in his water frame and Samuel Crompton in his spinning mule.

:* The mule was an intermittent process, as the frame advanced and returned a distance of 5ft. It was the descendant of a 1779 Crompton device.

Crompton Parkinson was a major employer until its factory closed in 2004.

The invention was later developed and improved by Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton.

The Firm was called Crompton and Co. and in 1927 became Crompton Parkinson after Colonel Crompton formed a business partnership with fellow British electrical engineer Frank Parkinson.

In 1969 Crompton Parkinson Ltd was downsized and operations moved elsewhere after a takeover by Hawker Siddeley and the site was taken over by the Marconi Company and became the base for the newly formed Marconi Radar Systems Ltd.

Abraham Henthorn Stott, the son of a stonemason, was born in nearby Shaw and Crompton in 1822.

He was born at Laneside, a hamlet in Crompton, Lancashire, England.

He and his wife ( a daughter of Mr Justice Crompton ) were involved in many kinds of social work ; he sat on the Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, and was actively associated with its president, John Stuart Mill.

Samuel Crompton was later to combine the two to form the spinning mule.

The first modern retail development was Crompton Place Shopping Centre, opened in 1971.

Carroll and his girlfriend Jean Crompton ( who had been captured and tried with Helen Gillis after Little Bohemia ) had grown close to the Nelsons, and his death was a personal blow to them.

He made his maiden speech on 17 July 1997, in which he remembered the inventor of the spinning mule Samuel Crompton who was born in Bolton.

During the 1960s under contract with the U. S. government, Elmira's Uniroyal chemical plant ( which changed its name to Crompton Company in 2001 and then to Chemtura in 2006 ) was one of seven manufacturers supplying the U. S. military with the toxic herbicide Agent Orange.

Gay Studies researcher Louis Crompton has cited Ji Yun's report in his popular Notes from the Yuewei Hermitage ( 1800 ), that some claimed the Yellow Emperor was the first Chinese to take male bedmates, a claim that Ji Yun dismissed.

Neighbouring Oldham ( which by the 1870s had emerged as the largest and most productive mill town in the world ) encroached upon Chadderton's eastern boundary, urbanising the town and surrounds, and forming a continuous urban cotton-spinning district with Royton, Lees and Shaw and Crompton — the Oldham parliamentary constituency — which at its peak was responsible for 13 per cent of the world's cotton production.

Although the Rolls Royce and Crompton Parkinson engined examples had better reliability no further examples were ordered, BR decided to dispose of the type, replacing them with an order of a further 100 of the already proven Class 20 locomotives.

The band was formed in 1981 in Vancouver, and originally consisted of vocalist Dale Martindale, guitarist Don Gordon ( later of Numb ), synth players Joe Vizvary and Glen Nelson, bassist Gary Smith and percussionist Kevin Crompton ( better known as cevin Key ).

Crompton set up his original factory known as the ' Arc Works ' in Queen Street in 1878.

About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin, and which was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i ' th ' Wood ( pronounced Hall-ith-wood ) wheel, from the name of the house in which he and his family resided.

* Bolton now known as Crompton Place Shopping Centre

In 1779 he purchased a number of spinning mules ( also known as Hall i ' th ' Wood wheels, invented by Samuel Crompton of Bolton ) suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin.

The British Rail Class 33 also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.

A total of 98 Class 33s were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ( BRCW ) and were known as " Cromptons " after the Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment installed in them.

Chelmsford became home to the United Kingdom's first electrical engineering works established by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.

Samuel Crompton ( 3 December 1753 – 26 June 1827 ) was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry.

Crompton installed electric street lights around the town centre to celebrate the incorporation of the Borough of Chelmsford in 1888.

Crompton supplied the traction motors for the first electric trains on Southend Pier.

In 1893, Crompton, Stephen J. Cook & Company of the UK marketed an electric, iron-wired toasting appliance called the Eclipse.

Gearing manufactured by David Brown Ltd. and powered by electric motors manufactured by Brook Crompton ( Electric ) Motors, whose factory was in Brockholes are used to rotate the top of the BT Tower in London.

In 2006, the power transmission and distribution sectors of Ganz Transelektro were acquired by Crompton Greaves, but still doing business under the Ganz brand name, while the unit dealing with electric traction ( propulsion and control systems for electric vehicles ) was acquired by Škoda Holding and is now a part of Škoda Electric.

Dumble recommended Crompton to the committee as an expert on heavy traction.

A Sulzer 12LDA28-A diesel engine drove a Crompton Parkinson GC426-A1 main generator which supplied power to six Crompton Parkinson C171-B1 traction motors.

* Finn, Michael ( 1983 ) Art of Shuriken Jutsu Paul Crompton, UK

* Crompton, Louis, et al.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

* Crompton, Samuel, W ; Rhein, Michael, J.

** The spinning mule is perfected by the Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton.

* December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor ( d. 1827 )

* Crompton, David ; William Thomasson ; Nickol, Brent B.

* 1779 – Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

The report prompted immediate apologies from Prime Minister David Cameron, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police David Crompton, Football Association Chairman David Bernstein and Kelvin MacKenzie, editor of The Sun at the time of the disaster, for their organisations ' respective roles.

The scholar Louis Crompton provides substantial contemporary evidence of Henry III's homosexuality, and the associated problems at court and politics.

* Richmal Crompton, author of the Just William series of books for children of all ages.

In the 1850s, George Crompton and L. J.

Other parks include: Newton Hill, East Park, Morgan Park, Shore Park, Crompton Park, Hadwen Park, and University Park.

The UNL course, taught by Louis Crompton, led to the introduction in the state legislature of a bill ( eventually defeated ) which would have banned all discussion of homosexuality in that state's universities and colleges.

United goalkeeper Les Olive, still registered as a player at the time of the disaster, retired from playing and took over from Crickmer as club secretary, while another former United goalkeeper, Jack Crompton, took over coaching duties after United chairman Harold Hardman had negotiated with Crompton's then-employers Luton Town for his release.

Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE ( born 1 September 1946 ) is a musician, singer and songwriter and producer, who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Bee Gees.

Skinny Puppy formed in 1982 from the partnership of cEvin Key ( Kevin Crompton ) and Nivek Ogre ( Kevin Ogilvie ) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.