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Samuel Crompton's modified 1779 spinning machine was popularly called what?
ACotton gin
BPower loom
CSpinning jenny
DSpinning mule
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Spinning mule
1. The Textile Industry section catalogs four British spinning machines.
2. The text identifies Crompton's 1779 machine, named 'spinning mule', after Hargreaves's jenny and Arkwright's frame.
3. Speed of cloth production rose two hundredfold with this device.
_Source: Maharashtra Balbharati Std XII History, Ch 1 "Renaissance in Europe and Development of Science", §1.4 ¶2_
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