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	those base football players creating pitched battles in Liverpool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Here was Josiah kindly investing his money time and money to the provide the wretches with full time employment and they kept sloping off to do inconsequential things like finish weaving a bolt of cloth, harvest their vegetables, go fishing or even poaching.
		Eventually Josiah generously installed one of the first clocking in devices the world had ever seen so as to help them over their aversion to time slavery.
		Josiah's cavalry were just galloping over the horizon, with a ball at their feet.
	www.liverpooltales.com /football.htm (1552 words)

	Wedgwood Pottery
		Josiah Wedgwood founded a firm that became synonymous with fine English ceramics and elegant pottery.
		His mother was determined to provide Josiah with a good education, so from the tender age of 6 he walked 7 miles to school every day in Newcastle-upon-Lyme.
		At the age of 12 Josiah was struck by smallpox, which kept him confined to bed for months.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/wedgwood.htm (700 words)

	war and social upheaval: industrial revolution -- English canals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wedgewood proceeded to organize a group of potters to finance a canal to connect their factories with Liverpool wearhouses.
		Wedgewood and other English potters had a large domestic market, but faced severe difficulties in shipping raw marials to their factories and the finished product to markets.
		Wedgewood in the 1760s proceeded to organize a group of potters to finance a canal to connect their factories with Liverpool wearhouses.
	histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/ir/can/cc-eng.html (1074 words)

	wedgewood china, wedgewood dinnerware, wedgewood china pattern, wild strawberry — chinacraft.co.uk
		Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the company, built his pottery at Etruria in 1769.
		Although the name of Wedgewood china has symbolised beauty, quality and fine craftmanship for over 240 years, each piece Wedgewood china has the strength to stand up to the demands of today's busy lifestyle.
		The wedgewood laboratory carries out an extensive testing programme on currently available dishwasher detergents to ensure that the detergents endorsed by wedgewood meet the highest possible standards in caring for your dinnerware.
	www.chinacraft.co.uk /search/Wedgewood_china.htm (588 words)

	Rauschenberg and Wedgewood
		The experimental nature of these processes, in fact, are similar to a discovery in the 1700's, by chemist and physicist Thomas Wedgewood, the son of the famous industrialist and potter, Josiah Wedgewood.
		Thomas Wedgewood conceived of the idea that light acts as a building block to "understanding the method by which the outlines and shades of painting on glass may be copied, or profiles procured, by the agency of light." (Batchen, p.
		Just as Wedgewood's first experiments with light, heat, and chemical compounds captured his designs on the chemical coated clay, so does Rauschenberg reveal the shape of his friend Sue on chemical coated paper; her shape processed by the heat of a hardware store lamp.
	www.hccs.cc.tx.us /JWoest/Research/photography.html (3072 words)

	Waterford Crystal and other great brands from cashs of ireland - Belleek, Hummel Figurines, Irish Gifts, Tableware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Josiah Spode I was born on 23 March 1733 to poor parents in a village in what is now Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England.
		Despite his father's poverty at death, it is possible that he had fallen on hard times only a short time beforehand so that young Josiah might not have had such a deprived childhood as has been believed.
		Josiah I worked from the age of 16 for one of the best potters in the area, Thomas Whieldon, where he remained for five years.
	www.cashs.com /mfr/spode.shtml (405 words)

	More about other Lunar Society members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His death in 1775 at the early age of 41, after a long illness which had progressively debilitated him (thought to have been a form of malaria contracted in Virginia), was a great blow to the Lunar Society and a source of grief to its members.
		Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1730, the youngest son of Thomas Wedgwood, whose family had been potters for generations.
		In common with James Watt and other members with manufacturing interests, he was keenly interested in developing accurate methods of measurement, which were the key to improving the quality of many manufactured goods.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /moreother.htm (2449 words)

	Creamware Museum Reproductions - Josiah Wedgewood celebrated Creamware Queen's Ware 18th century antiques and museum ...
		Josiah Wedgewood, one of the greatest names in England's commercial history, was born into a Staffordshire family with a long tradition of pottery.
		Wedgewood joined Thomas Whieldon in 1754 and sometime later he succeeded in developing that light-bodies stoneware fired at lower temperatures turned almost white.
		Queen Charlotte, George III's wife, commissioned Wedgewood to produce an entire dinner service whereupon he promptly renamed his creamware "Queen's Ware" in her honor.
	www.maritimeheritage.com /titanic/creamware.htm (394 words)

	Search: wedgewood
		Suppliers of wedgewood, please phone or email PL8 to enquire, equipping your kitchen and dining room, wedding list service, shop online or order a catalogue.
		Wedgewood Vancouver Boutique Hotel: Located on fashionable Robson Square, in the heart of downtown Vancouver...
		Wedgewood is a master-planned golf community of custom-designed homes, townhomes and villas surrounded by parks, trails and outdoor recreational amenities.
	www.dogpile.co.uk /uk.dogpl.toolbar/search/web/wedgewood (309 words)

	smilesonwedgewood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Such, in a few words, was the condition of the pottery manufacture when Josiah Wedgwood was born at Burslem in 1730.
		When he had completed his apprenticeship with his brother, Josiah joined partnership with another workman, and carried on a small business in making knife-hafts, boxes, and sundry articles for domestic use.
		Their patient self-reliance amidst trials and difficulties, their courage and perseverance in the pursuit of worthy objects, are not less heroic of their kind than the bravery and devotion of the soldier and the sailor, whose duty and pride it is heroically to defend what these valiant leaders of industry have so heroically achieved.
	www.people.memphis.edu /~dunowsky/smilesonwedgewood.html (1573 words)

	keel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They tended to think it might be the Wedgewoods as for some unknown reason Josiah Wedgewood took an interest in the child.
		John was taken ill, and Josiah sent to London for a doctor, which is rather unusual as employers in those days were not known for caring much about their workers.
		When the doctor arrived, Josiah was heard to say "on no account must you let this man die", but die he did, and Josiah went to his funeral.
	homepages.tesco.net /~ann.stewardson/keel.htm (424 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Wedgwood: The First Tycoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Brian Dolan's knowledgeable biography of Josiah Wedgwood emphasizes his story's contemporary business resonances, from the subtitle using "tycoon," a word unknown to the book's 18th-century protagonist, to a quote in the epilogue from Donald Trump explaining why Wedgwood would have been "honored" to be called one.
		When Josiah Wedgewood was born in 1730, the youngest of twelve children, into the home of a potter in the Britain's Midlands.
		Wedgewood was determined to achieve greater success and made a key decision--that he would continuously improve the processes used and invent new and wonderful things.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033464?v=glance (2683 words)

	Josiah Wedgewood: Entrepreneur To The Enlightenment by Brian Dolan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An intriguing examination of the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood, potter to the Queen, and an Enlightenment pioneer.
		Brian Dolan combines the remarkable story of Josiah Wedgwood, the English potter whose works are among the finest examples of ceramic art, with the story of the eighteenth century world of industry, fashion and connoisseurship.
		Born in 1730 in Staffordshire, into a family with a long tradition as potters, Wedgwood survived childhood smallpox (and later, the loss of his leg), to become one of the most prestigious potters in England; Queen Charlotte was sufficiently impressed to name him 'Royal Supplier of Dinnerware'.
	www.harpercollins.com.au /title.cfm?ISBN=0007139012&Author=0017939 (245 words)

	The Rest of the Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For example, Josiah Wedgewood (of Wedgewood china and dishware fame), was a small-time potter in Bursalem, Staffordshire County, trying to grow his business and expand.
		As a man of considerable foresight, he was one of the earliest manufacturers to see the benefit of the canals and was instrumental in getting the funding, rights of way, permissions and approvals, etc., for the construction of the Trent and Mersey Canal.
		(For trivia purposes, Josiah Wedgewood was a member of the Lunar Society whose members gathered at the industrialist Matthew Boulton's house in Soho, near Birmingham, during the full moon to discuss philosophy and politics.
	www.jimandlisatravels.com (478 words)

	William Smith & Co
		The entry is included because Smith used the name "Wedgwood" to mark his pottery so as imitate the mark of the Josiah Wedgwood company.
		Josiah Wedgwood obtained an injunction against Smith to restrain him from using the name "Wedgwood" on his ware.
		It is this: in many collections pieces of one kind or other will be found bearing the mark WEDGWOOD and Co., and others with the mark of WEDGEWOOD, sometimes impressed, and sometimes in colour.
	www.thepotteries.org /allpotters/937a.htm (750 words)

	CHARLES DARWIN
		His mother was Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgewood.
		Erasmus and Josiah became friends when they were both members of the Lunar society in Birmingham, a club which met at new moon every month to discuss technology, science commerce etc. Other members include Mathew Boulton and James Watt.
		Even though his father was opposed to the idea (these objections being overcome by Josiah Wedgewood) he went for the interview on 5
	www.angelfire.com /journal/Philsviews/Essays/CharlesDarwin.html (711 words)

	God's Usable People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Josiah Wedgewood, the maker of the famous Wedgewood ware was a godly man. An aristocrat came to be shown round the factory, and Josiah asked one of his youngest employees to show the man the various departments.
		As he was handing the vase over, Josiah purposely let it slip and it smashed to the ground in pieces.
		Josiah looked at him and said, "This vase, however valuable, can be replaced.
	www.4-11.org /books/usablepeople/use04.html (911 words)

	The Year 1000: A Legacy of Science & Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Josiah Wedgewood was the youngest of twelve children.
		Although Wedgewood is most famous for the blue and white pottery which bears his name, he is also credited with the industrialization of pottery.
		The Wedgewoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgewood; with Notices of His Works and Their Productions, Memoirs of the Wedgewood and Other Families, and a History of the Early Potteries of Staffordshire by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/y1k/pots3.shtml (151 words)

	Digital Collection - Teapot
		This teapot was made by the Joseph Stubbs pottery in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, which operated from around 1822 to 1835.
		This particular piece is called"pearlware." Long thought to have been originated by Josiah Wedgewood, the famed Staffordshire potter, pearlware in fact was created by others in the early 1770s and later taken up by Wedgewood.
		Pearlware was created as a low-cost alternative to British creamware, which in turn was used to undercut the market for expensive Chinese or even British porcelain.
	www.memorialhall.mass.edu /collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=15605 (148 words)

	Africans in America/Part 2/Am I Not a Man and Brother
		Black figures, usually depicted as servants or supplicants, typically knelt in the art of the period, at a time when members of the upper classes did not kneel when praying; this particular image combined the European theme of conversion from heathenism and the idea of emancipation into a posture of gratitude.
		Josiah Wedgewood, who was by then a member of the Society, produced the emblem as a jasper-ware cameo at his pottery factory.
		In 1788, a consignment of the cameos was shipped to Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, where the medallions became a fashion statement for abolitionists and anti-slavery sympathizers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part2/2h67.html (496 words)

	Firedrake's Homepage-Papers/Charles Darwin
		He was the grandson of the scientist Erasmus Darwin, a notable physician of the late eighteenth century, and also Josiah Wedgewood, whose pottery at Etruria became world-famous.
		His mother died when he was eight years old, and his older sisters Caroline Sarah, Marianne, and Susan Elizabeth took her place in his young life.
		His father was strongly opposed to the trip but was persuaded by Josiah Wedgewood, Darwin's grandfather, that it would be very suitable for a future clergyman.
	www.cs.unm.edu /~firedrak/documents/charlesdarwin.html (2395 words)

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	Twelve men started battle against British slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One new member of the committee was Josiah Wedgewood, the famous pottery designer and manufacturer.
		Wedgewood asked one of his craftsmen to design a seal for stamping the wax used to close envelopes.
		Wedgewood's kneeling African, the equivalent of the lapel buttons we wear for electoral campaigns, was probably the first widespread use of a logo for a political cause.
	www.rockymounttelegram.com /featr/content/features/stories/2005/08/07/20050807RMTBookReview.html (942 words)

	Wedgewood China
		wedgewood china, wedgewood dinnerware, wedgewood china pattern, wild strawberry...
		Although the name of Wedgewood china has symbolised beauty, quality and fine craftmanship for over 240 years, each piece Wedgewood china has the strength to stand...
		Wedgewood china, Denby china, Portmeirion china, Spode china, Haviland Limoges china, Royal Doulton china, Royal Albert china...
	www.timecapsule.co.uk /Wedgewood-China.html (391 words)

	Road to Riches
		To capitalise on the demand he knew existed, Wedgwood not only improved the technical aspects of pottery, but reorganised the work into production lines, and put a strikingly modern emphasis on marketing.
		The result was not so much a reaffirmation of Britain's leading position, but a growing realisation that Britain was beginning to be eclipsed.
		Josiah Wedgwood, A Biography by Anthony Burton, Andre Deutsch 1976
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/road_to_riches/prog4/prog4.stm (1799 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - <I>BOOKS</I>: The outsiders who made the future by moonlight
		The generic term for these humble metal products was "toys" and it was out of one of these families of "toymakers" that Matthew Boulton rose to prominence as an iron producer-just as Josiah Wedgewood came from a family that had made ceramic goods in Staffordshire for generations.
		This was the brainchild of Small and Wedgewood, which would eventually connect Birmingham and the West Midlands producers to Hull and Liverpool.
		Likewise, Josiah Wedgewood’s pottery factory at Etruria not only revolutionized the production of ceramics, but revealed that the future of business lay with middle-class consumers, "which Class", Wedgewood wrote, "we know are vastly, I had almost said, infinitely superior" to the aristocracy and gentry master craftsmen had traditionally served.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=994032002 (1056 words)

	Potteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In June 1798 Ralph Wedgewood, the nephew of Josiah Wedgewood who had the reputation of being the father of the industry, joined the Knottingley partnership.
		The business was renamed Tomlinson, Foster, Wedgewood and Co. to capitalize on the fame that the Wedgewood name had gained within the industry up to that time.
		The original partnership was further weakened by the death of John Thompson shortly after the arrival of Ralph Wedgewood and also of Timothy Smith in 1803.
	www.knottingley.org /history/potteries.htm (1171 words)

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