Evan Evans (entrepreneur)

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Evan Evans (born August 4, 1765 in Llanelltyd , Caernarvonshire, Wales , † December 9, 1844 in Geyer ) was a British spinning master and mechanical engineer. He is considered to be the founder of industrial cotton spinning in Saxony .

Walther Witting : Evan Evans , oil painting in the church in Geyer

Life

Evan Evans tomb in Geyer
Part of Evan Evans' former cotton machine spinning mill in Siebenhöfen that has been preserved

Evans first worked in Manchester and got to know the Bernhard brothers, who were in town to study English textile machines. Later he accepted their invitation to Saxony and from 1801 redesigned the Bernhardsche spinning mill in Harthau into the largest mechanical spinning mill in the world. 14,970 spindles for Muletwist were operated in it.

After Evans in 1801 with his wife Lowry ( Laura ), b. Richards had moved to Saxony, he initially worked as a spinning master in Harthau, but soon became self-employed as a machine designer. In 1804 Evans also fitted out the newly constructed second spinning mill building for the Bernhard brothers in Harthau. In 1810 another factory was built in the center of the village, so that when Bernhard started production in 1812, 18,592 spindles were running.

Evans developed and improved further mule yarn spinning machines in the following period. For this purpose he set up several mechanical engineering workshops in the Ore Mountains. His first mechanical engineering workshop was opened in Dittersdorf in 1807 . The mechanical systems of the spinning mills he equipped, as well as his workshops, were operated by Göpel drive primarily using the water power of the Ore Mountains rivers, but also by horse power. The technical equipment of the Clauss cotton spinning mill (then Seeber) in Plaue near Flöha was also a work of Evans. The plant was built between 1807 and 1809 by the Chemnitz architect Johann Traugott Lohse , who had also designed the Bernhard factory.

In 1809 he moved his workshop to Geyer , where the tin mining industry was down, and became the city's most important entrepreneur. Almost all spinning mills that were built in the Ore Mountains at that time were technically equipped by Evans. On August 14, 1812, Evans bought the Hohneujahrer and Oberen Neidhardter smelting works and stamping mills in the corridors of the Tannenberg manor from the Zwitterstock union in Geyer for 300 thalers. At this point he began building his own cotton mill, for which the Chemnitz industrial master builder Lohse also provided the construction plans. After the factory in Siebenhöfen had started operations, Evans sold it in 1814 for 19,000 thaler to his wife, who received an advance of 6000 thalers from the Royal Saxon Main Exchange Casse on August 6, 1814 , of which she received an advance of 6,000 thalers in 1834 for the further expansion of the spinning mill building 2,925 thalers were waived.

Due to the lifting of the continental blockade , the plant had to struggle with the English competition and was in default with the mortgage repayment. But other plants were hit even harder, Bernhardt in Harthau even went bankrupt in 1819. He himself mainly devoted himself to the construction of the spinning technique. a. a spindle grinding machine and a yarn winding machine . He also found a machine solution for the production of the corrugated cylinders.

After his death, his son Eli Evans (1805–1882) took over the company. His students further developed the technology of the textile industry in Saxony.

The Evans spinning mill in Siebenhöfen burned down in 1896, during the reconstruction, due to the demolition of entire building sections and redesigns, such as the removal of the mansard roof , much of Lohse's original architecture was lost.

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Herschel: Evan Evans (1765-1844): Life and work of the promoter of mechanical engineering and mechanical cotton spinning in Saxony. Geyer cultural mile: Tannenberg, 1999. ( DNB 1016848358 )

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personal data
SURNAME Evans, Evan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English spinning master and mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Llanelltyd , Caernarvonshire, Wales
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1844
Place of death Geyer