Edmund Cartwright
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| Edward Cartwright | |
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| Birthplace | Nottinghamshire |
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| Nationality | English |
| Known for | Power loom |
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Cartwright, Edmund
Born Apr. 24, 1743, in Marnham, Nottinghamshire; died Oct. 30, 1823, in Hastings, Sussex. English inventor of the power loom. After graduating from Oxford University (1764), he became a country clergyman. In 1785, Cartwright took out a patent for the treadle-operated loom, which he had invented; the shuttle was driven by hand. He was able to combine in this loom, which was improved in 1786, all the basic operations of hand weaving. In 1785, Cartwright built a mill with 20 looms in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and in 1789 installed a steam engine to drive them. Cartwright’s loom was widely used after improvements made by other inventors (1813 and 1822).
REFERENCE
Tseitlin, E. A. Ocherki istorii tekstiVnoi tekhniki. Moscow-Leningrad, 1940.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.