Philip Hamlyn Williams - my history of British Manufacturing

Britain shaped the manufacturing world. A bold assertion, but is it true? My book How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World seeks to answer this question. The next question is what happened to British manufacturing? The result of my quest to find answers to that question is in Vehicles to Vaccines. I am now exploring Manufacturing places.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Education for manufacturing

Oxford and Cambridge Universities, unlike the Scots, French and Germans, rather looked down on manufacturing preferring to teach the classi...

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-T...

Monday, May 4, 2026

James Watt and Matthew Boulton - steam powered manufactories

James Watt was a Scot, born in Greenock in January 1736. His father was a skilled carpenter employing quite a number of people working main...

Monday, April 27, 2026

Thomas Telford and John Smeaton - fathers of civil engineering, and John and George Rennie - civil and mechanical engineers

The Rennies were a Scots family that epitomises the connectivity of civil and mechanical engineering. I begin, though, with the father of c...

Monday, April 20, 2026

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 ...

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