Enoch Pratt

Enoch Pratt

male, deceased (1896)
Maryland School for the Deaf, Maryland School for the Deaf and Dumb, Canton, Baltimore, Bridgewater Academy, coal mine, from Plymouth County, Massachusetts…iron
Enoch Pratt (1808 - 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, a Unitarian, and a philanthropist. Born in North Middleborough, Massachusetts,...
Albert Fert

Albert Fert

male
Japan Prize laureate, Wolf Prize, Japan Prize, Jülich Research Center, Giant magnetoresistive effect, physicist…iron
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte...
Henry Cort

Henry Cort

male, deceased (1800)
Business Person, Foundrymen, puddling process, The Henry Cort Community College, ironmaster, pig iron…iron, wrought iron
Henry Cort (1740 - 1800) was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought...
Charles Crocker

Charles Crocker

male, deceased (1888)
from California, iron, pacific coast, california gold rush, American railroad executive, Sacramento
Charles Crocker (September 16 1822 - June 14 1888) was born in Troy, New York to a modest family. When he was fourteen he moved to a farm in Iowa,...
Abraham Darby III

Abraham Darby III

male, deceased (1791)
telford, Coalbrookdale, secondary school, industrial revolution, English, quaker…cast iron, iron, The Iron Bridge
Abraham Darby III (1750 - 1791) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker...

James Baird

male, deceased (1876)
Conservative MP, Scottish orthodoxy, member of parliament, Business Person, William Baird, trade union…iron
James Baird (born 1802 in Old Monkland (North Lanarkshire, Scotland); died 1876 in Cambusdoon) was an industrialist. He was the fourth of the eight...

Norman Hall

male, deceased (1917)
democratic, democratic party, U.S. House of Representatives, from Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, Democrat…iron
Norman Hall (November 17, 1829-September 29, 1917) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Norman Hall was...

James Small

male, deceased (1793)
plough, inventor, Scottish, iron, midlothian, From Midlothian
James Small (1730, Dalkeith, Midlothian - 1793) was a Scottish inventor instrumental in the invention of the modern-style iron swing plough in...
John Roebuck

John Roebuck

male, deceased (1794)
inventor, university of leiden, northampton, patent, industrial revolution, sulfuric acid…iron
John Roebuck (1718 - July 17, 1794) was an English inventor, who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He was born at Sheffield,...
Rona Munro

Rona Munro

female, 50 years old
Women screenwriter, Scottish women writer, Women dramatists and playwright, Women television writer, Target Books, Lyric Hammersmith…iron
Rona Munro is a prize-winning Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television; was the author of the screenplay of Ken...