A memoir of the life, writings, and mechanical inventions of Edmund Cartwright

A memoir of the life, writings, and mechanical inventions of Edmund Cartwright

Author: Jane Margaret Strickland

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom. Cartwright also patented a wool combing machine in 1789 and a cordelier in 1792. He also designed a steam engine that used alcohol instead of water. In this book, the path life took to lead him to become an inventor is remembered and celebrated.


Patent Inventions--intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

Patent Inventions--intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

Author: Clare Pettitt

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 019925320X

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This volume suggests that the fierce debates over patent law and the discussion of invention and inventors in popular texts during the 19th century informed the parallel debate over the professional status of authors.