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JEDEDIAH See also:STRUTT (1726-1797)
, See also:British inventor and manufacturer, was See also:born at See also:South See also:Normanton, See also:Derbyshire, where his See also:father occupied a See also:farm, on the 28th of See also:July 1726
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He was educated at a See also:good See also:country school, with a view to becoming a See also:farmer, but, showing See also:great aptitude for See also:mechanical arts, he was in 1740 articled for seven years to a wheelwright at Findern, near See also:Derby
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Here he lodged with a hosier, Woollatt, whose daughter he married in 1755
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In the meantime he had inherited, from his See also:uncle, the stock on a farm at See also:Blackwell, near south Normanton, now, and probably then, the See also:property of the See also:duke of See also:Devonshire
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While in occupation of this farm his See also:brother-in-See also:law, See also: The partnership with Need had terminated in 1773 with the expiration of the patents . Shortly before this Strutt had made the See also:discovery, which revolutionized the manufacture of See also:calico, that cotton could be used throughout in its making . To See also:house the machinery for this new invention the first See also:fire-See also:proof mill in See also:England was built at Derby . In See also:order to be near his See also:work Strutt built, from his own designs, Milford House, near Belper, where he lived until 1795, when See also:ill See also:health compelled him to return to Derby . Here he died in 1797 . He See also: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-See also:heating problem and, finally, invented the Belper See also:stove . He also devised a self-acting spinning See also:mule, which had however no great success . He was a See also:fellow of the Royal Society . His son, See also:Edward Strutt (18o1-188o), was for some See also:time M.P. for Derby, and in 18.56 was raised to the See also:peerage with the See also:title of See also:Baron Belper of Belper . |
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