Letterpress copybook, 1884-1888.

Bell, I. Lowthian (Isaac Lowthian), 1816-1904

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Lowthian Bell, ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, County Durham, England. Bell was a skilful entrepreneur as well as an innovative metallurgist. He was involved in multiple partnerships with his brothers to make iron and alkali chemicals. He pioneered the large-scale manufacture of aluminium at his Washington works, conducting experiments in its production, and in the production of other chemicals such as the newly discovered element thallium. He was a director of major com...

Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing Company.

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Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909

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Joseph Wharton (1826-1909) was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker merchant, industrialist, scientist, and philanthropist who was active in 19th century Delaware Valley manufacturing, business, and education development. He was descended from two of the oldest families in Pennsylvania. His father, William Wharton, was in the direct line of Thomas Wharton of Westmoreland, England, who came to America in 1683. The first American ancestor of his mother, Deborah Fisher Wharton, was John Fisher, who emig...

Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

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Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...

Thomas Iron Company

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Located in the Lehigh Valley, Pa.; sold to Drexel and Co. in July 1922 after an existence of 66 years. From the description of Records of the Thomas Iron Company, 1860-1880. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31019652 Founded 1854; operated furnaces in Pennsylvania, mines in New Jersey, and other property; sold in 1922. From the description of Records, 1854-1939. (Lehigh University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28416280 ...

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

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The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company was a railroad that served the southeastern part of the United States. From the description of Employee Pass, 1899 March 4. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49251564 Chartered in 1850 and also known as the L & N Railroad and Old Reliable. It was a small regional railroad until after the Civil War when it underwent expansion into a major Midwestern and Southern area railroad stretching from Louisville, to ...

Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

Dickson, Samuel, 1837-1915

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Epithet: attorney, of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x0003e7 ...

DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Company.

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Thomas, Edwin, fl.1890.

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Thomas, Samuel, 1827-1906

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Samuel Thomas was born in Wales in 1827, the son of David Thomas (1794-1882), a Welsh ironmaster who pioneered the smelting of iron with anthracite coal using the hot blast. Thomas was induced to emigrate to Pennsylvania in 1838, where he operated the works of the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, a firm organized by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company as a means of increasing the utilization of its coal. David Thomas left the Crane Company in 1854 and founded his own Thomas Iron Comp...

Ironton Railroad Company.

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