Cartwright, Edmund
Other Business Names:
- Cartwright, Dr Edmund
- Cartwright, Major John
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Doncaster, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
- Retford, Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England
Sectors:
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Mechanical engineering
Textile & wearing apparel making machinery production
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Textile production
Woollen & worsted textiles production inc spinning & weaving
Notes:
Rev Dr Edmund Cartwright, 1743-1823, trained as a clergyman but was much better known for his inventive activity, notably of the first power loom (for weaving), which he patented 1785-90, and a more successful but less known woolcombing machine which was patented in the early 1790s. Partly to demonstrate the former, he established mills at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, but they were unsuccessful and soon closed. He also had a connection with a mill promoted by his brother, Major John Cartwright, 1740-1824, at East Retford. Due to patent infringements and the quick progress of other inventors, he received little recompense for his inventions and, following a petition by Manchester businessmen, in 1810 was awarded by Parliament a sum of £10,000. His brother, John, well known as a political radical, sometime supported him in his work
2023
Publications:
- 'Cartwright brothers. Their contribution to the wool industry' in Wool Through the Ages by Chaloner, W H
- 'Edmund Cartwright' in W Walker, Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Year 1807-8 by Walker, William
- John Cartwright by Osborne, John W
- 'Major John Cartwright and the Revolution Mill, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, 1788-1806' in N B Harte & K G Ponting (eds), Textile History and Economic History. Essays in honour of Miss Julia de Lacy Mann by Chaloner, W H, & John D Marshall
- Memoir of the Life of Edmund Cartwright; with an introduction by Kenneth G Ponting by Strickland, Mary
- Micro foundations of macro invention. The case of the Reverend Edmund Cartwright by O'Brien, Patrick K
- Origins of the power loom revisited by Holden, Roger N
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Cartwright, Dr Edmund
- Cartwright, Major John
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Doncaster, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
- Retford, Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England
Sectors:
- Mechanical engineering Textile & wearing apparel making machinery production
- Textile production Woollen & worsted textiles production inc spinning & weaving
Notes:
Rev Dr Edmund Cartwright, 1743-1823, trained as a clergyman but was much better known for his inventive activity, notably of the first power loom (for weaving), which he patented 1785-90, and a more successful but less known woolcombing machine which was patented in the early 1790s. Partly to demonstrate the former, he established mills at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, but they were unsuccessful and soon closed. He also had a connection with a mill promoted by his brother, Major John Cartwright, 1740-1824, at East Retford. Due to patent infringements and the quick progress of other inventors, he received little recompense for his inventions and, following a petition by Manchester businessmen, in 1810 was awarded by Parliament a sum of £10,000. His brother, John, well known as a political radical, sometime supported him in his work 2023Publications:
- 'Cartwright brothers. Their contribution to the wool industry' in Wool Through the Ages by Chaloner, W H
- 'Edmund Cartwright' in W Walker, Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Year 1807-8 by Walker, William
- John Cartwright by Osborne, John W
- 'Major John Cartwright and the Revolution Mill, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, 1788-1806' in N B Harte & K G Ponting (eds), Textile History and Economic History. Essays in honour of Miss Julia de Lacy Mann by Chaloner, W H, & John D Marshall
- Memoir of the Life of Edmund Cartwright; with an introduction by Kenneth G Ponting by Strickland, Mary
- Micro foundations of macro invention. The case of the Reverend Edmund Cartwright by O'Brien, Patrick K
- Origins of the power loom revisited by Holden, Roger N