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Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England. Strutt and his brother-in-law William Woollat developed an attachment to the stocking frame that allowed the production of ribbed stockings.
13 de mar. de 2024 · The sale of a horse for £5 was the unlikely catalyst for Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797) to become yet another Derbyshire industrialist who could lay claim to be one of the founders of the modern factory system.
Jedediah Strutt is the man who connected all the sites in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. His hosiery business and early silk mill were in Derby, and Jedediah was the leading partner in the development of Cromford Mill.
Learn about Jedediah Strutt, a key figure in the development of the cotton industry in Derbyshire. He invented the Derby rib machine, partnered with Richard Arkwright, and built mills in Cromford, Belper and Milford.
Learn about Jedediah Strutt, the inventor of the Derby Rib and a partner of Richard Arkwright, who transformed Belper into a thriving cotton town. Discover how his sons and descendants continued his business, social and philanthropic activities in Belper and beyond.
Learn about the life and achievements of Jedediah Strutt, a pioneer of the East Midlands knitting industry. He invented the Derby Rib Machine in 1758 and founded several mills and a Unitarian Chapel in Belper.
It reaffirms Strutt and Woollatt's original 1759 patent for the Derby Rib machine, after an unsuccessful challenge in the courts in 1766. Jedediah Strutt was born in South Normanton in Derbyshire in 1726, the son of a prosperous farmer and maltster.
