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See also:CARTWRIGHT, See also:EDMUND (1743–1823) , See also:English inventor, younger See also:brother of See also:Major See also:John Cartwright (q.v.), was See also:born at Marnham, See also:Nottinghamshire, on the 24th of See also:April 1743, and educated at See also:Wakefield See also:grammar school. He began his academical studies at University See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and in 1764 he was elected to a fellowship at Magdalen. In 1770 he published Armine and Elviia, a legendary poem, which was followed in 1779 by The See also:Prince of See also:Peace. In 1779 he was presented to the rectory of -;oadby Marwood, See also:Leicestershire, to which in 1786 was added a prebend in the See also:cathedral of See also:Lincoln. He took the degree of D.D. at Oxford in 18o6. He would probably have passed an obscure See also:life as a See also:country clergyman had not his See also:attention been accidentally turned in 1784 to the possibility of applying machinery to See also:weaving. The result was that he invented a See also:power-See also:loom, for which he took out a patent in 1785; it was a See also:rude contrivance, though it was improved by subsequent See also:patents in 1786 and 1787, and gradually See also:developed into the See also:modern power-loom. Removing to 'See also:Doncaster in 1785, he started a weaving and See also:spinning factory; it did not, however, prove a See also:financial success, and in 1793 he had to surrender it to his creditors. A See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill at See also:Manchester, in which a number of his See also:machines were installed, was wilfully destroyed by See also:fire in 1791. In 1789 he patented a See also:wool-combing See also:machine, for which he took out further patents in 1790 and 1792; it effected large economies in the cost of manufacture, but its financial results were not more satisfactory to its inventor than those of the power-loom, even though in 18or See also:parliament extended the patent for fourteen years. In 1807 a memorial was presented to the See also:government urging the benefits that had been conferred on the country by the power-loom, and the See also:House of See also:Commons voted him £1o,000 in 1809. He then See also:purchased a small See also:farm at Hollander, near See also:Sevenoaks, See also:Kent, where he spent the See also:rest of his life. He died at See also:Hastings on the 30th of See also:October 1823. Other inventions of Cartwright's included a cordelier or machine for making rope (1992), and an See also:engine working with See also:alcohol (1797), together with various agricultural implements.
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