DYNASTY OF IRON FOUNDERS
Written by Arthur Raistrick
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.
in 1953
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- INDUSTRY
- STEELMAKING
- COMPANY HISTORY
DYNASTY OF IRON FOUNDERS
Written by Arthur Raistrick.
Stock no. 1205825
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
B/w photos and illustrations. The Darbys and Coalbrookdale. xiii + 308 pages. Covers unevenly faded. Contents very good. Wrapper chipped at edges and lightly browned to rear.
Front cover
Contents
- PREFACE
- Chapter
- One - The Coalbrookdale Company - an outline
- Two - Abraham Darby I, 1699-1708 - The Bristol Companies
- Three - Coalbrookdale works, 1708-1717
- Four - Richard Ford, 1717-1745. Abraham Darby II, 1732-1738
- Five - Abraham Darby II, 1738-1763
- Six - Richard Reynolds, 1763-1772. Abraham Darby III. 1768-1789
- Seven - Furnace and Foundry, 1708-1807
- Eight - The Steam Engine, 1722-1772
- Nine - The Steam Engine, 1772-1805
- Ten - Railways and canals, 1745-1800
- Eleven - The Iron Bridge and other bridges, 1778-1863
- Twelve - Richard Dearman, 1789-1803
- Thirteen - Edmund Darby, 1803-1810. Barnard Dickinson, 1810-1827
- Fourteen - Abraham Darby IV and Alfred Darby, 1827 - 1851
- Fifteen - The mid century; the Great Exhibition 1851
- Postscript
- Appendices
- Index