Wool combing machine

The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, in Doncaster.

The machine was used to arrange and lay parallel by length the fibers of wool, prior to further treatment.

[1][2][3][4] Cartwright's invention, nicknamed "Big Ben," was originally patented in April 1790, with subsequent patents following in December 1790 and May 1792 as the machine's design was refined by Cartwright.

[6] The wool combing machine was improved refined by many later inventors, including Josué Heilmann, Samuel Cunliffe Lister, Isaac Holden, and James Noble.

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An illustration of James Noble's wool combing machine, called the Noble Comb, from Popular Science in1891.