INVENTOR

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823

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Edmund Cartwright (24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823) was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Cartwright has received more than 315,722 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Cartwright is the 105th most popular inventor (down from 99th in 2019), the 816th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 764th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Inventor.

Cartwright is most famous for inventing the power loom.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Edmund Cartwright ranks 105 out of 426. Before him are Leo Fender, Momofuku Ando, Robert Noyce, Louis Le Prince, Jacque Fresco, and John Harrison. After him are Joseph Pilates, Johann Philipp Reis, Clément Ader, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Gaston Glock, and Lee de Forest.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Edmund Cartwright ranks 14. Before him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, Nicolai Abildgaard, and Carl Peter Thunberg. After him are René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Gavrila Derzhavin, Joseph Banks, and Giuseppe Gazzaniga. Among people deceased in 1823, Edmund Cartwright ranks 11. Before him are Lazare Carnot, Jacques Charles, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Charles François Dumouriez, Ann Radcliffe, and André-Jacques Garnerin. After him are Abraham-Louis Breguet, Rafael del Riego, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Markos Botsaris, and Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Cartwright ranks 816 out of 8,785. Before him are David Cameron (1966), Osborne Reynolds (1842), John Ray (1627), Tim Roth (1961), Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158), and John Harrison (1693). After him are Thomas Cole (1801), Eric Burdon (1941), John Berger (1926), Kim Cattrall (1956), Dylan Thomas (1914), and Edward Kelley (1555).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Edmund Cartwright ranks 18. Before him are Thomas Savery (1650), Henry Bessemer (1813), James Hargreaves (1720), Richard Arkwright (1732), William Webb Ellis (1806), and John Harrison (1693). After him are Samuel Crompton (1753), W. O. Bentley (1888), John Kay (1704), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Robert Stirling (1790), and William Murdoch (1754).

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