EDMUND CARTWRIGHT

HIS LIFE

FAST FACTS

• Born: Nottinghamshire, England
• Education: Oxford University
• Died: October 30, 1823

CARTWRIGHT'S INSPIRATION

• 1784- Visited Richard Arkwright's spinning mill
• Inspired to construct a similar loom for weaving

HIS FIRST LOOM

• Clumsy and ineffective
• Barely functioned

NEW LOOM BRINGS SUCCESS

• 1786- began opening factories for his looms
• 1790- created a mechanical loom able to weave wide cloth

BANKRUPTCY

• 1791- Factory burnt down
• 1793- Forced to sell factory and patents.

LATER LIFE

• 1796- moved to London
• Worked on other invention ideas
• Died on October 30, 1823

THE POWER LOOM

The Power Loom

• patented in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright
• improved continuously by him and other inventors

THE POWER LOOM

• Was made famous in America by Francis Cabot Lowell
• it was the common cause for women replacing men in factories

sources

• http://todayinsci.com/C/Cartwright_Edmund/CartwrightEdmund-SelfMadeMen(1858...
• http://lowellsindustrialrevolution.weebly.com/francis-cabot-lowell-and-the-...
• http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/power_loom.htm
• https://www.bergbook.com/cgi-bin/demo10.cgi/Search?paint=1&search=excudit
• http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/72/Edmund-Cartwright.html

SOURCES CONTINUED

• http://spartacus-educational.com/TEXloom.htm
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