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Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom (d. 1823)

Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom. Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of Major John Cartwright, a political reformer and radical, and George Cartwright, explorer of Labrador.

24 April 1743

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