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Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823

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Edmund Cartwright (24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Cartwright is the 119th most popular inventor (down from 105th in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 815th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Inventor.

Cartwright is most famous for inventing the power loom.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Edmund Cartwright ranks 119 out of 426. Before him are David Bushnell, Josiah Warren, Clément Ader, Jacque Fresco, Robert Noyce, and James Hargreaves. After him are Theobald Boehm, Franz Reichelt, Samuel Crompton, Hans von Ohain, Nikolai Kardashev, and Paul Otlet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Edmund Cartwright ranks 18. Before him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Peter Thunberg, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, Joseph Banks, and Gavrila Derzhavin. After him are William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, and William Paley. Among people deceased in 1823, Edmund Cartwright ranks 13. Before him are Jacques Charles, Charles François Dumouriez, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ann Radcliffe, Rafael del Riego, and Abraham-Louis Breguet. After him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Markos Botsaris, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, and Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Cartwright ranks 1,145 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Fleet (1887), Stephen Boyd (1931), James Mirrlees (1936), James Hargreaves (1720), Colin Chapman (1928), and Anne Hyde (1637). After him are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868), Joan Plowright (1929), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Terence Stamp (1938), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), and Emperor Norton (1818).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Edmund Cartwright ranks 19. Before him are Thomas Savery (1650), John Harrison (1693), Richard Arkwright (1732), Henry Bessemer (1813), William Webb Ellis (1806), and James Hargreaves (1720). After him are Samuel Crompton (1753), W. O. Bentley (1888), John Kay (1704), Robert Stirling (1790), Oliver Lodge (1851), and Robert Watson-Watt (1892).

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