Edmund Cartwright was born on April 24, 1743, a the son of a landowner. He attended Oxford University and began his career in the church as a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1786. Cartwright visited Richard Arkwright cotton-spinning mills in 1784. He was inspired and wanted to make a new machine for cotton-spinning. He invented the first power loom in 1785. His factory was only a testing site for new machines because Cartwright was ignorant. He went bankrupt in 1793 and died in London on October 30,
