In Document 1, Cartwright appears to be an amateur who was easily able to help transform the cotton textile industry. What details in his account support this view of his achievement?

During the end of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, there was great application to the industry of new machines and steam as a driving force and new techniques were used in all spheres of human activity, the first machines were also manufactured to weaving like the mechanical loom, invention of the English clergyman Edmund Cartwright.

Explanation:

Then in the seventeenth century in England, traditional industry was advanced and quickly overtaken in importance by a new textile branch; cotton, then imported from India. The cotton market had reached such a magnitude that it could not be satisfied solely by imports.

National production was mainly established in Manchester, where the humidity of its climate prevented the fibers from becoming hard and brittle.

Initially the methods were the same as those already employed by manual workers. Performance was so poor and the need for technical improvement became so acute that the first inventions appeared from the mid-eighteenth century, although they were not yet widely applied.

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