The Power Loom
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A biographical essay in Household Words on Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823), the clergyman and poet who invented the power loom. It covers his early life and friendship with the poet George Crabbe, the 1784 conversation at Matlock that set him on the idea, his patents of 1785 onward, his Doncaster mills, and the opposition and losses he suffered. It also follows his later inventions, his agricultural work at Woburn and the Parliamentary grant of £10,000. It includes figures on the growth in the number of power looms in England and Manchester.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1853
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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