'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
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- Author(s) Chaloner, W H, & John D Marshall
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1973
- Pages pp281-303
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
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Deals with Major John Cartwright, 1740-1824, political reformer, who was brother of Edmund Cartwright, 1743-1823. Here deals with John's promotion, building and operating of Revolution Mill. Focuses especially on the use of steam power and his correspondence about this with Boulton & Watt