What is Edmund Cartwright?
{{Infobox person |name = Edmund Cartwright |image = Edmund Cartwright 2.jpg |image_size = 150px |caption = Edmund Cartwright |birth_name = |birth_date = 24 April 1743 |birth_place = [[Nottinghamshire]] |death_date = 30 October 1823 |death_place = [[Hastings]], [[Sussex]] |death_cause = |resting_place = [[Battle, East Sussex|Battle]], [[Sussex]] |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = [[England|English]] |other_names = |known_for =[[Power loom]] |education = |employer = |occupation = [[Clergyman]], [[Inventor]] |home_town = |title = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |boards = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |relatives = |signature = Cartwright_Edmund_signature.jpg |website = |footnotes = }} '''Edmund Cartwright''' (24 April 1743 &ndash; 30 October 1823) was an [[English people|English]] [[inventor]]. He graduated from [[Oxford University]]. He was an [[Church of England|Anglican]] [[clergyman]] and in 1785 he invented the [[power loom]].<ref>Frank Kidner; et al. ''Making Europe: The Story of the West, Since 1300'' (Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014), p. 553</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cartwright, Edmund}} [[Category:1743 births]] [[Category:1823 deaths]] [[Category:English Anglicans]] [[Category:English inventors]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:People from Nottinghamshire]] {{bio-stub}}