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Samuel A. Cartwright
American physician (–)
Samuel Adolphus Cartwright (November 3, – May 2, ) was an American physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States. Cartwright is best known as the uppfinnare of the 'mental illness' of drapetomania, the desire of a slave for freedom, and an outspoken opponent of germ theory.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Cartwright married Mary Wren of Natchez, Mississippi, in [3] During the American Civil War, he was a physician in the Confederate States Army and served in camps near Vicksburg and Port Hudson.[3] He was assigned with improving the sanitary conditions for the soldiers.[3]
Slavery
[edit]The Medical Association of Louisiana charged Cartwright with investigating "the diseases and physical peculiarities of the negro race". His report was delivered as a speech at its annual meeting on March 12, , and published in its journal.[4] The most sensat
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Edmund Cartwright
British reverend, poet, and lifelong inventor Edmund Cartwright was born on April 24, in Marnham, Nottingham, England and would later invent a device that set in motion dramatic changes affecting today’s worldwide textile industry.
Cartwright’s parents were wealthy landowners in Marnham, and he and his four brothers were well educated. At least three of them would become well-renowned in their chosen professions. Edmund’s brother, John Cartwright, was a radical leader with England’s parliamentary reform movement at the turn of the century, and his brother George was a trader and explorer of Labrador.
Edmund Cartwright was himself a graduate of University College at Oxford. He pursued a master’s degree with Oxford’s Magdalen College, finishing his MA in From there, he became rector of a Leicestershire church, married, and continued to progress in his career with the church, taking on the curacy of Brampton in , followed by his appointment as prebendary of L
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Edmund Cartwright ()
Edmund Cartwright ©Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor of the power loom, one of the key steps in the mechanisation of textile manufacture.
Edmund Cartwright was born on 24 April in Nottinghamshire, the son of a landowner. He was educated at Oxford University and began a career in the church, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from until his death.
In , Cartwright visited Richard Arkwright's cotton-spinning mills at Cromford in Derbyshire and was inspired to construct a similar machine for weaving. His idea was scorned by many who thought that such a complicated procedure would be impossible to automate. Undeterred by these comments, and his complete inexperience in the field, he began work. The first power loom, patented in , was extremely crude but improvements were made in subsequent versions. Cartwright now established a factory in Doncaster for his looms, but his ignorance of industry and commerce meant that the fact