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  William Murdoch (1754-1839) was a pioneer of gas lighting. His home, a cottage in Boulton and Watt's Soho Foundry,
William Murdoch (1754-1839) was a pioneer of gas lighting.
His home, a cottage in Boulton and Watt's Soho Foundry, was the first deomstic residence in the world to be so lit.
He was born near Cumnock, Ayrshire in Scotland.
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 Soho Manufactory - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Soho Manufactory was an early factory, opened in Soho, Birmingham, England.
The mill was replaced by a new factory, designed and built by the Wyatt family of Lichfield, and completed in 1766.
The cottage was later demolished and Boulton's home (Soho House) was built on the site, also by the Wyatts.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Soho_Manufactory   (212 words)

  
 Foundry Lane: Round the Bends
Foundry Lane is interesting for the way it separates yet binds Soho Foundry and the Black Patch.
The road can be understood as a spine, which both connects and separates: that which is on the left is very much connected to that which is on the right, but the two sides are distinct in their placement and detail, as is the thing that runs between them.
Foundry Lane has been and continues to be a place of changes: the maisonettes will be knocked down, a spine road will be run through the allotments and the park, the old factories will be levelled and replaced with aluminium sheds, the current 'notorious' tenants will move out and new 'upmarket' ones will move in.
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 Matthew Boulton
It was here that his ambitious plans were realised and the world famous Soho Manufactory was built at a huge cost of £10,000.
At its completion in 1765 it was a major attraction and an icon of the Industrial might of the great manufacturing empire that he had created.
Soho House which was near the site of the manufactory still stands and acts as a museum and testament to his achievements.
www.birminghamuk.com /matthewboulton.htm   (452 words)

  
 And afterwards ...
Soho House is a short distance along, on the left.
As such it has undergone considerable change and although it says 'Soho Foundry' on the wall, the building you see is not the original one.
Walk along Foundry Road, which is opposite Lodge Road, go under the railway and turn right into Wellington Street and then first left into Foundry Lane and the Soho Foundry is a little way along on the left.
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 Soho Foundry - History
The first Soho Foundry opened in Birmingham, England on Jan 30, 1796 to manufacture steam engines.
The Soho Foundry in Ballarat was established around about 1856 by Robinson, Thomas & Co. and stood on the southeast corner of Eyre and Errand Streets.
Joseph Bishop's foundry made the first steam powered boat to be launched on Lake Wendouree in 1865.
www.sohofoundry.com.au /history.php   (508 words)

  
 WILLIAM MURDOCH STYLES, FASHION AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However numerous accounts exist that by 1794 Murdoch was producing coal gas from a small retort containing burning coals with a three or four foot iron tube attached, through which he piped the gas before sending it through an old gun barrel and igniting it to produce light.
In view of the smell, risk of poisoning and chance of accidental combustion of this experimental method of lighting it is no surprise that it was not, even by its inventor, used as widely or as casually as is today often claimed.
In 1798 Murdoch returned to Birmingham to work in the Soho foundry and continued his experiments with gas, as part of which he lit the interior of the Soho main building, although it is likely that it was lit only in part and not (at this time) permanently.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com
Bedford limestone, quarried there and shipped all over the world, was used in the construction of the Empire State Building and the Pentagon.
It has textile mills, iron foundries, printing plants, and metallurgical and food-processing industries.
Steel Foundry (1936) and Grain Elevators from the Bridge (1942) are in the Whitney Museum,...
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 Foundry Lane: what's to know?
By 1918, the north side of Foundry Lane was pretty much built up, as the building outlines show.
The Soho Foundry Museum is said to have maps of bomb strikes, but I haven't seen/copied them.
Foundry Lane in 2003 is undergoing another change.
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 GAS LIGHTING STYLES, FASHION AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1798 he used gas to light the main building of the Soho Foundry and in 1802 lit the outside in a public display of gas lighting, the lights astonishing the local population.
One of the employees at the Soho Foundry, Samuel Clegg, saw the potential of this new form of lighting.
A resident of Birmingham, his attention was probably roused by the exhibition at Soho.
www.cashorclothes.com /gas_lighting   (1689 words)

  
 TPS British Events Program 2000
Admission to monthly public lecture meetings at Soho House is free (this does not include the House Museum).
Soho Foundry was created by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and was most famous for its steam engine production used in factories across the world.
The screw engines were built at Soho Foundy by the Boulton and Watt Company and it was launch using some of Richard Tangye's hydraulic rams, a company also situated in Soho.
www.planetary.org.uk /html/soho_2001.html   (1734 words)

  
 GENUKI: Handsworth
Among the numerous mural monuments in the church is one in memory of the late Matthew Boulton, Esq, of Soho.
"Soho Works, about one and a half miles NW of Birmingham, are now only partly occupied, as a steam engine manufactory, by J Watt & Co, who have their principal works at Soho Foundry, in Smethwick.
Soho Works were founded and long occupied by Boulton & Co, and formed one of the largest manufactories in Europe, consisting of four squares with connecting ranges of warehouses and shops, sufficiently extensive for the accommodation of a thousand workmen.
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 Smethwick: Economic history | British History Online
On the younger Watt's death in 1848 the Soho Manufactory and the mint which Matthew Boulton had established there were closed, and the firm, thenceforth known as James Watt and Co., carried on work only at Soho Foundry.
(Footnote 98) In 1860 a former interest of the firm was revived when a mint was opened at the Foundry, and much of the country's new bronze coinage introduced in 1860 was struck by James Watt and Co. and the Birmingham firm of Ralph Heaton and Sons.
In 1866 there were eleven screw coinage presses at the Foundry mint and the firm was striking copper and bronze coins, presumably for foreign governments since it appears to have done no work for the Royal Mint after 1863.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36177   (11564 words)

  
 More about Matthew Boulton
Christened the Soho Foundry, by the turn of the century the new plant had turned out around 50 steam engines.
In about 1800 he was commissioned by Catherine the Great, who had herself visited Soho in 1776, to supply coinmaking machinery for the new Russian Mint in St Petersburg which, as we have seen, was designed by the Birmingham architect William Hollins.
Dr Richard Doty of the Smithsonian Institute on the sad, dying days of the great Soho Manufactory, as the Boulton coin presses were removed to Ralph Heaton's mint: 'It was one of the most gentle yet furthest reaching transitions in the history of numismatics...
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 Railway Rolling Stock Industry in Canada
By 1880 this foundry was taken over by others and in 1886 we find William Hamilton Senior employed as Manager of the Toronto Water Works, which then were located at the end of a long pier in Toronto Bay at the foot of Peter Street.
In close connection with this works, a wheel foundry was established at the same period by William Gartshore, of the well-known Canadian railway supply family of that name, which functioned until the end of the gauge conversion period on Canadian railways slowed the temporarily abnormal demand.
The foundry was able to produce the castings for the metal parts of the cars, and the rest of the construction involved the use of lumber and timber, of which there was a plentiful supply in the Cobourg district at the time.
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 Robert.html
Robert's livelihood came from the Soho Foundry, situated next to the Presbyterian Church at 28 - 30 Townsend Street in Belfast.
The foundry produced a wide range of iron products where 250 workers were employed.
The windows in the palace of the Pasha were molded in the Soho Foundry.
www.mcadamshistory.com /Robert.html   (1397 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It has iron and aluminum foundries and manufactures fabricated metal products, corrugated boxes, and electronic equipment.
An important heavy industrial center, it has iron- and steelworks and the largest silver foundry in Poland.
It is a transportation center with foundries, arsenals, breweries, printing plants, and aeronautical and food industries.
www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Soho+Foundry&rc=10&fh=7&fr=11   (403 words)

  
 The 'Archives of Soho' Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Manufactory Boulton built at Soho (in Handsworth) in 1762, for making buckles, buttons, 'toys', plate, and silverware (examples of which may be seen in the Museum) was the envy of Europe.
The Soho Foundry, much of which is still standing, was built at Smethwick in the 1790s to help make parts for these engines.
The surviving records of the Soho businesses, as well as the personal and estate records of the Boulton and Watt families, are some of the most important documents in the City Archives.
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 English weights and measures: Names on weights - A to D
The firm became a public limited liability company in 1894, and moved to the famous Soho Foundry in 1897.
About 1860 the firm was divided, one part being the foundry at Stourport, known as Baldwin Son and Co. (The other part was a forge at Wilden, a mile away, where the future Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin worked for a while).
The factory at Deepfields, Coseley, was founded by Edward Sheldon in 1826, although it was not known as the Cannon Foundry until later.
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 collections:prism Braddyll_pic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The locomotive is said to have been made by Hackworth at his Soho Foundry, Shildon ca.
Although parts were removed sometime after its retirement as a locomotive, and the remains are quite corroded, 'Braddyll' is rare because among other things, it does not appear to have been subject to any major alterations since built, nor has it been restored; what material of the locomotive is present is likely to be 'original'.
While 'Braddyll' has many features of the 'Hackworth School' of locomotive building, the differences mean that it is possible that it was not built at Soho Foundry, but by one of the other local builders, including Hackworth's brother, Thomas.
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /collections/prism/Braddyll_pic.asp   (234 words)

  
 Digital Handsworth - Exhibition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Some of their employees lived in houses at the Manufactory and at the Foundry.
When Soho Foundry opened in 1796, a row of houses was provided for workers such as filers, fitters, drillers and engine erectors.
He let them out to selected tenants, including Hollins Hunt, a foreman from Soho Foundry, whose dog was described as “an annoyance to the place, he should be shot”.
www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk /hiddenlives7.stm   (194 words)

  
 Nunovo UK: dereliction, trolleys, bricks, and more.
This bit of land may have also been used or occupied by gipsies, as there was a camp in the open space nearby for at least the latter years of the 19th century.
A hundred years earlier, this spot was in the midst of Birmingham Heath, near Brindley's 'crooked ditch' as it ran between Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the Tipton and Wednesbury coalworks, and next to what was to become Boulton and Watt's Soho Foundry.
One of these spaces is the Black Patch Recreation Ground, an open space once used as a tip for foundry waste, then sold and developed in 1910; the other is the Merry Hill Allotments, land leased by M. Boulton to the Corporation in 1897.
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 Matthew Boulton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When his father died in 1759 a new, much larger, factory was built on a site at nearby Soho and equipped to manufacture a range of products including toys, jewellery, silverware and plated goods.
In 1796 the Soho Foundry was erected and equipped for the production of complete steam engines and Boulton selected William Murdoch, one of the ablest manufacturing engineers of his time, to assist in the selection of plant and machinery.
The Soho Foundry was easily the most modern engineering works in the world in 1796 and steam engines were built there for over one hundred years.
basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk /~mjh1hlc/boulton.htm   (400 words)

  
 Soho - definition of Soho by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Inhabited in the 17th century mainly by immigrants, it is known today for its restaurants, theaters, and nightclubs.
As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.
The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
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 Soho Foundry - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Soho Foundry - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 re:location - travel - official web-site for the major international project by artists in Smethwick.
Soho to be the site of a hi-tech business park.
The new £550-million scheme at Soho will develop new canalside homes and commercial developments, plus a new Soho Technology Park.
The Avery Berkel factory is also the same site (the 'Soho Foundry') where Matthew Boulton & James Watt developed and mass-produced commercial steam-engines for use in the Industrial Revolution.
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 All Saints - WAR ENG
The manufactory concentrated on the production of a wide range of finished metal articles, including coins, whilst the components for Watt's steam engines were made at the Soho Foundry in nearby Smethwick.
Soho Manufactory closed after the death of James Watt the younger in 1848, and was demolished some 15 years later.
The minting of coins continued in Soho; Boulton's steam presses were brought by Ralph Heaton and Son in 1850, and installed at their workshops in Bath Street.
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 Soho Manufactory Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 H-Digital
Nucoda, Bright Systems, Digital Voodoo, MTI Film and The Foundry are promoting the benefits of using software applications based on open architecture by showing the ease with which they can be used together to form a seamless integrated DI workflow.
Headquartered in Soho, London, Nucoda is a developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in solutions for film and video.
Based in London's Soho, The Foundry develops plug-in visual effects that add functionality to the leading compositing platforms of the film and video industry.
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