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Biography of Abraham Darby
Name: Abraham Darby
Birth Date: 1677
Death Date: March 8, 1717
Place of Birth: Dudley, Worcestershire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: iron manufacturer
Abraham Darby
Abraham Darby (1677-1717) developed the coke burning blast furnace that made it possible to produce commercial grade iron cost-effectively. His work helped launch the Industrial Revolution and contributed to the development of the iron and steel industries.Abraham Darby was born near Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1677. The young Darby, son of a tenant farmer, was apprenticed to a malt-mill maker in Birmingham. After his apprenticeship was completed, Darby ran a malt-mill operation beginning in 1698.Darby took a trip to Holland in 1704. Based on his observations of the iron industry in that country, he became intrigued with the idea of using cast iron instead of brass in the manufacture of items such as pots and other wares. In the later 1600s, the process of producing iron faced challenges that nobody had yet been able to overcome. Manufacturers were unable to produce the constant high heat needed for successful smelting. Iron was at …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…a high-pressure boiler. The company also produced such innovations as iron rails and an iron canal aqueduct. Iron and steel-making industries around the world owe their existence to the discoveries that Abraham Darby bought to the coke smelting process and the manufacturing of iron. Further Reading Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, edited by David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, 1998.Chambers Biographical Dictionary, edited by Melanie Parry, Larousse plc, 1997.Dictionary of Inventions and Discoveries, edited by E.F. Carter, Crane, Russak & Company, Inc., 1977.Dictionary of National Biography, Part I, Oxford University Press, 1953.Dictionary of National Biography, Volume V, edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, Macmillan, 1908.Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, edited by Peter Hanns Reill, Facts on File, 1996.Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary, May, 1995.New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 3, 15th edition, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1997.Random House Webster's Dictionary of Scientists, Random House, 1997.Who Did What, Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1974.World of Invention, 2nd edition, Gale Group, 1999.
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