Coalbrookdale
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ N , 2 ° 30 ′ W
Coalbrookdale is a village in the Unitary Authority Telford and Wrekin near Shrewsbury in England . It is one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution .
history
Industrial revolution
In 1709 Abraham Darby I leased the iron and steel works there . The conversion of the smelting of iron ore with hard coal instead of charcoal , which was the basic requirement for the industrial mass production of pig iron, which was promoted there in the next decades , represents an important step in the industrial revolution . His grandson, Abraham Darby III , built a building not far from Coalbrookdale in in 1775–79 a cast iron bridge over the Severn , the first iron bridge in the world.
In 1767, Richard Reynolds , one of the owners of the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, poured cast iron ingots into stock in plate form as a result of sales problems . In order to be able to use these meaningfully in the meantime, he had worn wooden plank rails of the hut railway laid out with them, where they served the intended purpose excellently. This is considered to be the birth of iron rails for vehicle wheels.
present
Industry is still located in the area today .
Sons and daughters (selection)
- Thomas Parker (1843-1916), British engineer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sigfried Giedion : Space, Time, Architecture . Verlag für Architektur Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7608-8106-8 , p. 131-132 .
- ^ Ralf Roman Rossberg : History of the Railway. Sigloch Edition, Künzelsau 1999, ISBN 3-89393-174-0 , p. 14, p. 424.