William Hazledine, Shropshire ironmaster and millwright: a reconstruction of his life, and his contribution to the development of engineering, 1780

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/19977 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/19977 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/19977 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/33/58 2012-05-30 14:52:56 2019-01-23 09:56:06 2012-05-30 14:52:56 thesis show 0 Pattison Andrew White Roger ftp://ubira.bham.ac.uk/eTheses/3358_Pattison/ University of Birmingham William Hazledine, Shropshire ironmaster and millwright: a reconstruction of his life, and his contribution to the development of engineering, 1780 - 1840 unpub CC DA 10col_artl Many illustrations are copyright of other organisations and are not available in this digital version of the thesis. The original thesis is available for reference use in the University of Birmingham Main Library. The name of William Hazledine (1763 – 1840) is almost unknown, even to industrial historians. This is surprising, since he provided the ironwork for five world ‘firsts’, and he was described at the time of his death as ‘the first [foremost] practical man in Europe’. The five structures are Ditherington Flax Mill, Shrewsbury (the first iron- framed building in the world), Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (still one of the longest and highest in Britain), lock gates on the Caledonian Canal, a new genre of cast-iron arch bridges, and Menai Suspension Bridge. This thesis aims to rediscover Hazledine’s life and work, and place it in the context of social and industrial history. It particularly concentrates on the development of cast iron technology in Shropshire, which has been less studied than the work of earlier ironmasters, such as the Darbys and John Wilkinson. The thesis also examines Hazledine’s relationship with Thomas Telford, with whom he collaborated on many projects, and Hazledine’s contribution to the development of mills and millwrighting in Shropshire and surrounding counties. Having established an outline of Hazledine’s life and work, there is ample scope for follow up studies in the fields of metallurgy, engineering, mills and local history. 2012-07 2011-10 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation, including all text, maps, photographs and illustrations is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Ordnance Survey maps are © Crown Copyright/database right 2011. An Ordnance Survey/Edina supplied service. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Andrew Pattison public 284 University of Birmingham School of History and Cultures, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (IIICH) m_ph na 2012-07 graduation