ABC had Ted Koppel for their late night guy, and Drew Carey became their prime-time guy. Bruce Helford was the show's executive producer from its start in 1995 to its end in 2004, as was Drew.
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide.
Samuel Crompton. The tale of Samuel Crompton is one of those unpleasant stories of an unschooled inventor who fails to protect the rights to his creation, and therefore dies in poverty. In Crompton's case, the invention was the spinning mule, which combined aspects of earlier devices to create a machine that would spin strong, smooth yarn efficiently.