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Jedediah Strutt, född 1726 i South Normanton i Derbyshire, död 7 maj 1797 i Derby, var en brittisk företagare inom textilindustrin, en av pionjärerna inom sitt område. Han fick år 1758 och 1759 två patent som täcker stickmaskinernas utveckling för strumpor.
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Jedediah Strutt was a hosier and cotton spinner. Once logged in, you can add biography in the database
Jedediah Strutt or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England.
Administrative / biographical background: The Strutt family's fame and fortune originated with Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797), inventor of the Derby rib machine. He was also Richard Arkwright's backer and partner as well as founder of a silk stocking firm in Derby and cotton-spinning mills at Belper and Milford.
JEDEDIAH STRUTT (1726-1797), British inventor and manufacturer, was born at South Normanton, Derbyshire, where his father occupied a farm, on the 28th of July 1726. He was educated at a good country school, with a view to becoming a farmer, but, showing great aptitude for mechanical arts, he was in 1740 articled for seven years to a wheelwright at Findern, near Derby.
Framework Knitting. Strutt’s North Mill houses two examples of these frames. The older of the two dates to around 1750, the younger to around 1800. The machine’s construction requires a number of different skills including carpentry and blacksmithing / metal working to produce the wooden frame and intricate metal parts of the machine.
