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.

Showing posts with label steel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steel. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2025

Corby manufacturing history

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 Corby was a rural Northampton village with a history going back before the Domesday Book. As with so many places, it was the railway that c...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Scunthorpe manufacturing history

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 The iron ore fields of north Lincolnshire attracted iron smelting to Frodingham and Appleby, two villages within what became Scunthorpe. Bo...
Friday, January 3, 2025

Consett manufacturing history

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 There is evidence of metalurgical activity in the Derwent valley in County Durham from early times. There was a rich deposit of coal under...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Who else shaped the manufacturing world - American steel

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 The story of American steel making begins in the wake of the Civil War. A number of academics take a start date of 1867 which coincides wit...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Who else shaped the Manufacturing World - German steel

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 In Britain, the relatively large scale production of steel probably began in the mid eighteenth century with the discovery by Huntsman of a...
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