Issued to honor Edmund Cartwright, the English clergyman who patented the power loom in 1785 — an invention he pursued with almost no mechanical background, largely out of stubbornness after a dinner conversation with Manchester merchants who claimed machine weaving was impossible. Ukraine's commemorative program frequently reaches into global industrial and scientific history, and Cartwright sits in a series that ranges from domestic figures to foreign inventors deemed significant to human progress broadly.
Mintage for this type was capped at 45,000 pieces.
Issued to honor Edmund Cartwright, the English clergyman who patented the power loom in 1785 — an invention he pursued with almost no mechanical background, largely out of stubbornness after a dinner conversation with Manchester merchants who claimed machine weaving was impossible. Ukraine's commemorative program frequently reaches into global industrial and scientific history, and Cartwright sits in a series that ranges from domestic figures to foreign inventors deemed significant to human progress broadly.
Mintage for this type was capped at 45,000 pieces.