Charles Attwood
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Image from page 169 of "Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed" (1895)
Identifier: menofmarktwixtty01welf Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidmenofmarktwixtty01welf">Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1895">1895 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890">1890s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWelford__Richard__1836_1919">Welford, Richard, 1836-1919 Subjects: Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon__W__Scott">London, W. Scott Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorRobarts___University_of_Toronto">Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorUniversity_of_Toronto">University of Toronto View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/menofmarktwixtty01welf/menofmarktwixtty01welf#page/n169/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/menofmarktwixtty01welf" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidmenofmarktwixtty01welf">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/menofmarktwixtty01welf/menofmarktwixtty01welf#page/n169/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: teshead,and obtained a share in a small manufactory of window glass. Inthree years he had bought out his partners, and was a glass-makeron his own account, with a large stock of new ideas to work upon,and sufficient capital to carry him safely through it. He patentedone of his inventions, and had good prospects of success, for it 15° CHARLES ATTWOOD. enabled him to give a transparency to glass which it had notpreviously possessed. Three years of assiduous labour, however,were consumed in perfecting the process, and before he could makeany profit he was involved in a law-suit. When the case was decidedin his favour, after nine years litigation, he found that the personsfrom whom he should have recovered his costs were mere men ofstraw; so he moved along quietly until his patent expired, when theprinciple was taken up by others with profitable results. Deprived of the first-fruits of his enterprise in the glass trade, Mr.Attwood turned his attention to the business which his father and Text Appearing After Image: C/^U:-^ dZ^i^^c^-p^ grandfather had followed before him. Railway development wascreating a demand for iron, and at the same time facilitating its manu-facture and distribution, ^^ith the Barings, of London, at his back,Mr. Attwood obtained a lease of the ironstone underlying the wide-spreading manors of Wolsingham and Stanhope, erected blast-furnaces at Tow Law, and commenced life afresh as an ironmaster.In this department of industry he was as successful as in the pro-duction of glass he had been unfortunate. Under his managementthe Weardale Iron and Coal Company, as the firm was called, roseto be one of the greatest manufacturing concerns in the district.Ironstone mines and lead mines ; collieries and quarries ; furnaces. CHARLES ATTWOOD. 151 forges, and rolling mills; industrial populations at Tow Law, Stan-hope, and Tudhoe—all these owe their origin, their development,and their prosperity, to the restless energy and the inventive skill ofCharles Attwood. Busy as he was with sche Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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