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The places where Manufacturing happened

Manufacturing transformed the places where it took place. Villages became towns because millennia earlier great forests had been buried and became rich seams of coal. Tiny seaside communities surviving on fishing witnessed the building of ever larger ships carrying cargoes of coal or wool and returning with exotic goods from the east. Waring barons found their swords replaced by guns cast from…

#Cotton #Engineering #Industrial Revolution #manufacturing #Railways #Shipbuilding #Steel #Textiles

John and Charlotte Guest - GKN

#British #Engineering #Industrial Revolution #Iron #manufactory #Wales #women

The British in South East Asia

#Ceylon #China #india #opium #Railways #rubber #tea #Textiles

Edward, Tom and Albert, and Douglas Vickers - three generations of steel makers

By the mid eighteenth century members of the Vickers family were in business at Mill Sands, Sheffield as millers. With the growth of steel, William Vickers moved to a rolling mill business nearby and entered into a partnership which would become in 1828 Naylor, Hutchinson, Vickers & Company. William’s interests turned towards the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway and its was Edward who moved from…

#Aircraft #Engineering #Industrial Revolution #manufacturing #Railways #Shipbuilding #Steel #WW2

William Armstrong - hydraulics engineer and armament manufacturer

#armaments #British #Engineering #history #hydraulics #Industrial Revolution #manufacturing #Shipbuilding

The American relationship

America has been there in the background all my life. My father was a fan; I had an American godmother. Both these stemmed from the Second World War and my father’s role in army supply, where American industry played such a large part. I went on from there to explore army supply in the First World War and the picture cleared and I could see the commercial advantage given to the American economy.…

#American #history #manufacturing #Supply #WW2

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard, born in 1806, was the only son of Marc Brunel the celebrated engineer of the Thames Tunnel. Marc was French and as a royalist fled France after the Revolution spending six years in the USA where he built a reputation which would carry him safe through Francophobe London. He had brought with him the design for a machine to manufacture pulley blocks for sail ships. He eventually found an…

#Engineering #Industrial Revolution #Iron #Railways #Shipbuilding #Steam

Youth Unemployment

The Guardian ends its leader on target when it says say ‘there needs to be work’. What is the point in training for jobs that don’t exist? I have spent the last five years exploring the story of British manufacturing witnessing from afar how more and more people were drawn into the business of making things. I have noted that there were years where jobs were good and reasonably paid. I have then…

#crisis #economy #Employment #manufacturing

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History of Education for manufacturing

#British #education #Engineering #Industrial Revolution #manufacturing #technology

Sir Alexander (Mac) and Lady Rachel MacRobert

Alexander MacRobert was born in Aberdeen in 1854. Papermaking took place in many parts of the country where there was a plentiful supply of water, but also of waste cotton. One such was Aberdeen. There were also many textile mills there: the Crombie Mills which exported fine tweeds and overcoats and Hadden & Co who were early users of steam driven engines for the wool trade, to name but two.…

#Army #Cotton #Industrial Revolution #manufacturing #paper making #Textiles

William Fairbairn - the doyen of Manchester engineers

William Fairbairn was a Scot, born in Kelso in 1789. At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to Percy Main Colliery, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. In 1811, he moved to London, where he worked for Rennie and Penn. In 1817, he launched a mill-machinery business in Manchester with a former shop-mate, James Lillie. The business was successful and in the 1830s he expanded into locomotive building. In…

#Industrial Revolution #Manufacturers #mechanical Engineering #Railways #Shipbuilding #Textiles

James Watt and Matthew Boulton

James Watt was a Scot, born in Greenock in January 1736. His father was a skilled carpenter employing quite a number of people working mainly on ships. He was successful and respected; he owned shares in some of the ships he worked on. He married an equally respectable woman. The family story was tragic with three of five children dying in childhood with a further child losing his life on one of…

#coin minting #Industrial Revolution #manufacturing #Steam

John Smeaton - father of civil engineering, and John and George Rennie - civil and mechanical engineers

#bridges #Canals #civil engineering #mechanical Engineering #mills

Abraham Darby - iron master

Iron ore was smelted by burning charcoal in the Weald and as forests were denuded, smelting spread to other forested areas. Eventually it became clear that an alternative to charcoal was needed. The Earl of Dudley’s son ‘Dud’ claimed to have smelted iron ore with coal but there is no evidence of this. Dud was born in 1599 and Abraham Darby in 1678 both close to Dudley Castle. Abraham’s father was…

#British #coke #Engineering #history #Industrial Revolution #Iron #manufacturing

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