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Edmund Cartwright was born in Low Marnham, United Kingdom, to William and Anne Cartwright. -
Richard Arkwright, with assistance of John Kay, invented the spinning frame. -
Cartwright graduated from Oxford University in 1766, obtaining a master's degree. -
After gaining inspiration from visiting Arkwright's cotton-spinning mills in 1784, Cartwright came up with the first design for the power loom. At this time, the idea of a fully automatic loom was very farfetched to the public, but Cartwright continued to design his concept. -
The year after it was designed, Edmund Cartwright successfully developed a functioning power loom. -
Edmund Cartwright obtained rights to his invention on April 4th, 1785. -
As the previous design that Cartwright invented was fairly poor due to his inexperience, he created a new and improved power loom that proved to be more efficient. -
Cartwright implemented his new and improved power looms into a weaving mill in Doncaster, UK. -
In 1803, William Horrocks improved Cartwright's power loom, by adding an improved method of taking cloth onto a beam once it had been woven, and developing a new and innovative metal frame; neat and compact, allowing many looms to be in use within a small area. -
Horrocks developed further modification to the 'lathe motion' in the power loom, increasing its efficiency. -
Edmund Cartwright, the original inventor of the power loom, died on the 30th of October, 1823 -
During 1857, approximately 250,000 power looms were in use in Europe; a majority being located in Lancanshire.