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using these looms, and discovered many of their shortcomings. He attempted to remedy these in a number of ways: by introducing a crank and eccentric wheels to actuate its batten differentially, by improving the picking mechanism, by means of a device for stopping the loom when a
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failed to enter a shuttle box, by preventing a shuttle from rebounding when in a box, and by stretching the cloth with temples that acted automatically. His mill was repossessed by creditors in 1793.
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sized while a loom was stationary. His plans for sizing them while a loom was in operation, and before being placed in a loom, failed. These problems were resolved in 1803, by
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in 1789 and a cordelier (machine for making rope) in 1792. He also designed a steam engine that used alcohol instead of water.
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one manually controlled. He added improvements, including a positive let-off motion,
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as a tutor, and developed as a minor poet. He published the poem
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752:(3 ed.). London: John Murray.
749:Armine and Elvira: A Legendary Tale
1010:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
676:"Obituary: Rev. Edmund Cartwright"
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