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Abraham Darby III (24 April 1750 – 1789) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution.
O neto de Darby, Abraham Darby III (1750 a 1791) construiu a primeira ponte de ferro do mundo, sobre o rio Severn em Coalbrookdale, Shropshire em 1779. Abraham Darby inventou a fundição de coque em 1709 e avançou a produção em massa de produtos de latão e ferro.
In 1779 Darby’s grandson, Abraham Darby III (1750–91), completed one of the world’s first cast-iron bridges (at present-day Ironbridge, near Coalbrookdale), and in 1802 the Coalbrookdale Works built the first railway locomotive with a high-pressure boiler, for Richard Trevithick, an English engineer and inventor.
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24 de abr. de 2019 · April 24, 2019. Abraham Darby III, an English iron manufacturer, was born Apr. 24, 1750. Darby came from a long line of ironmasters who worked in Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. His grandfather, Abraham I, had invented the coke-fired blast furnace in 1709 (previous blast furnaces used charcoal as fuel, but England was running out of ...
29 de mai. de 2018 · Abraham Darby III assisted in the design of the Severn River Bridge by incorporating iron into the construction. The bridge, built in 1779, was the world's first iron bridge. After Abraham Darby III's death in the late 1700s, the company produced the first locomotive engine, which incorporated iron in the design of a high-pressure ...
Abraham Darby III. 1750-1791. English inventor who built the world's first cast-iron bridge. Darby's bridge, which crossed the Severn River in Coalbrookdale in England, was a major improvement over the wooden or masonry bridges that preceded it. Unlike wood, iron would not rot (although it would rust if not properly maintained).
21 de set. de 2023 · Capitalising on engineering expertise and new iron-casting techniques, he proposed the world's first iron bridge, to be cast and built by Abraham Darby's grandson, Abraham Darby III. A strong and durable bridge, it would support the transportation of goods across the River Severn and cut down barge traffic.
