Edmund Cartwright Essay

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Edmund
Cartwright
was the British inventor who was born on April
24
th
,
1743 in Nottingham,
England.
He invented the Power
Loom
which caused the series of dramatic changes in the textile industry. The power loom was a great leap from a slow and long process of hand weaving thread to automatic weaving.
It allowed quicker production which meant more profit made. Before the power loom was invented, the weaving process was long and tiring because humans had to weave by hand.
In 1784,
Edmund
Cartwright was introduced to a spinning machine that turned cotton into thread which was invented by Richard Arkwright.
The
invention, however, required