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JEDEDIAH STRUTT (1726-1797)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1044 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEDEDIAH

STRUTT (1726-1797)  ,
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British inventor and manufacturer, was born at South
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Normanton,
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Derbyshire, where his
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father occupied a
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farm, on the 28th of
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July 1726 . He was educated at a good country school, with a view to becoming a farmer, but, showing
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great aptitude for
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mechanical arts, he was in 1740 articled for seven years to a wheelwright at Findern, near Derby . Here he lodged with a hosier, Woollatt, whose daughter he married in 1755 . In the meantime he had inherited, from his
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uncle, the stock on a farm at Blackwell, near south Normanton, now, and probably then, the
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property of the duke of Devonshire . While in occupation of this farm his
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brother-in-law, William Woollatt, brought to his
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notice the efforts that had been unsuccessfully made to produce ribbed as well as plain goods on the stocking
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frame,
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rand here he invented Strutt's Derby ribbing machine .
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Patents were taken out by Strutt and Woollatt in 1758 and 1759 . Strutt went to live at Derby, and with his brother-in-law started a factory, " Derby Patent Ribs " at once becoming popular . In 1762 Strutt and Woollatt joined
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Samuel Need, a hosier of Nottingham, and carried on there and at Derby a very successful business . In 1768 they were approached by Richard Arkwright (q.v.), who had been recommended by Messrs Wright, bankers of Nottingham, to consult Need as to the possibilities of his cotton-spinning frame . Strutt at once realized its value, and was able to solve one or two minor difficulties which had interrupted the smooth working of the new mechanism . The
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firm of Arkwright, Strutt & Need started their first cotton mill at Nottingham, with horse power . Later
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works were erected at Cromford and, about 178o, after Strutt dissolved partnership with Arkwright.. he built himself the mills at
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Belper and
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Milford, the greater
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part of which are still used .

The partnership with Need had terminated in 1773 with the expiration of the patents . Shortly before this Strutt had made the

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discovery, which revolutionized the manufacture of
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calico, that cotton could be used throughout in its making . To house the machinery for this new invention the first fire-proof mill in England was built at Derby . In order to be near his
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work Strutt built, from his own designs, Milford House, near Belper, where he lived until 1795, when
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ill
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health compelled him to return to Derby . Here he died in 1797 . He
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left three sons and two daughters . His eldest son, William Strutt (1756-1830), was also of great mechanical ability . It was he who designed the calico factory above mentioned; he applied himself to the house-
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heating problem and, finally, invented the Belper
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stove . He also devised a self-acting spinning mule, which had however no great success . He was a
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fellow of the Royal Society . His son,
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Edward Strutt (18o1-188o), was for some time M.P. for Derby, and in 18.56 was raised to the peerage with the title of Baron Belper of Belper .

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