Automobile Biographies Edmund Cartwright Noted investogator of propelling land-carriages by steam. Born at Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England, April 24, 1743. Died at Hastings, October 30, 1823. Cartwright was educated at Oxford and secured a living in the English church. He devoted himself to the ministry and to literature until 1784, when he became interested in machinery [...]