User:Sitush/Alexander Brodie
Alexander Brodie (1732-1811) was an ironmaster and armaments manufacturer who had business interests in Calcutts, Broseley, Shropshire. He also operated as a financier, with a base in London.[1] He opened up another business in Manchester in the early 1790s, trading in partnership with a McNiven and Ormerod from St George's iron foundry at Knott Mill. They manufactured domestic ironmongery essentials such as stoves, grates and kitchen equipment. His "patent stove", from which it he is said to have made much money, was not in fact in patent and, similarly, his works at Calcutts produced pirated versions of James Watt's stationary steam engine. He held government contracts and also supplied special stoves for use on ships.[2]
Prior to setting up the foundry in Manchester he was already supplying pig iron to foundries which were operating there. This came from his Shropshire works.[3]
In Aptil 1798 the firm of Boulton and Watt discovered that he had infringed various of their patents at his Calcutts site, the outcome of which was that he agreed to pay £602 in compensation.[4]
By the early 1800s he also had a share in a foundry at Bridgnorth, Shropshire known as the Hazeldine Foundry.[4] When his foundry closed the site was taken on by W & J Galloway & Sons. He died a wealthy man.[2]
He took out a patent relating to "boiler and furnaces" in 1805, which showed his address as being London..[5]
Brodie death notice in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1811, vol 81 part 1, p.89 notice Galloways dump
An employee of Galloways & Co. called Thomas Sutcliffe was President of the Friendly Society of Boiler Makers as early as 1839, the organisation having been established in 1834.[6]
There was a strike of boiler makers at the Galloway works in 1882 and in 1905 "bringing about a rupture between the firm and our members, which to this day [1905] has not been healed ... Overtures have repeatedly been made from the Society, but the long feud has not yet ended".[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Chaloner, W. H.; Farnie, D. A.; Henderson, W. O., eds. (1990). Industry and Innovation: Selected Essays of W.H. Chaloner. Routledge. p. 163. ISBN 0714633356.
- ^ a b Musson, A. E.; Robinson, E. (June 1960). "The Origins of Engineering in Lancashire". The Journal of Economic History. 20 (2). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association: 228–229. doi:10.1017/S0022050700110435. JSTOR 2114855.
{{cite journal}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Musson, A. E.; Robinson, E. (June 1960). "The Origins of Engineering in Lancashire". The Journal of Economic History. 20 (2). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association: 226. doi:10.1017/S0022050700110435. JSTOR 2114855.
{{cite journal}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b Robinson, Eric; Musson, Albert Edward (1969). Science and Technology in the industrial revolution. Manchester University Press. p. 425. ISBN 9780719003707.
- ^ Galloway, Elijah; Herbert, Luke (1832). History and progress of the steam engine. London: Thomas Kelly. p. 851.
- ^ Cummings, David Charles (1905). A historical survey of the Boiler Makers' and Iron and Steel Ship Builders' Society: from August, 1834, to August, 1904. Newcastle-on-Tyne: R. Robinson & Co. p. 28.
- ^ Cummings, David Charles (1905). A historical survey of the Boiler Makers' and Iron and Steel Ship Builders' Society: from August, 1834, to August, 1904. Newcastle-on-Tyne: R. Robinson & Co. p. 113.
Sorry, this is lengthy. Ancient indian historian concentrated on articles relating to the Yadav caste of India, including Yadav, Ahirs, Yadu, Jat people, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Sinsinwar, Kshatriya and Lunar Dynasty. User_talk:Ancient indian historian demonstrates that there were issues with sourcing, removal of valid cited content without discussion, original research/synth based on primary sources, misrepresenting sources, unattributed pastes from other WP articles and an idiosyncratic method of citing sources. There was also edit warring/3RR and a tendency to want to glorify the Yadav caste. They were eventually blocked as a duck of Sumitkachroo.
Bill clinton history registered on 15 July, a few days after the AIH indef block. The spread of contributions has become a little wider but fundamentally it is the same subject area and most edits are to the same articles as AIH. With the exception of edit summaries - which BCH uses rather more frequently than did AIH - the pattern of problematic contributions and disruption is similar. BCH is a fair bit more chatty, however.
When AIH was blocked, eg on 25 June, an SPA turned up at Yadav - Akhandpsy - the next day and made a couple of ref deletes similar to the modus operandi of AIH, as did some of the socks. AIH was blocked on 8 July, and around 12 July another more-or-less SPA turned up with similar behaviour (Parthyadav) while Suraj yadav2005 became active for one day after an absence of a year. Similarly, Kumargauravappu appeared and made just one edit, as did Bear4war (the latter now blocked for admitted socking).
The SPA pattern then ceased until 30 July when Zyx12345 appeared and made yet more edits in the same vein, with only one edit to an unrelated article. Sky1772 followed as a new more-or-less SPA.
On 15 August Rockstar1984 revived themselves from a year-long period of inactivity to make a huge revert of the Yadav article, which Bill clinton history approved of even though it was clearly a poor edit that reverted the article to a state where it was terribly cited, terribly written, included copyvios, had undue weight, OR, SYNTH etc.
BCH was blocked for edit warring on 17 August and Akhil.anand.hisar appeared soon after, making similar edits. Not an SPA this time, and they had edited other articles connected to the Yadav theme since registering on 9 August. BCH returned on 18 August and picked up the edit warring/poor content contributions straight away.
There is something odd going on here. I am unsure whether it is off-wiki canvassing, socking or something else. The continued insertion of poor content, often unexplained deletion of cited content and general disruption is considerable. I am lumping the lot under Sumitkachroo because that was determined to be the sockmaster last time round. I am deliberately not notifying the various contributors: the atmosphere is pretty bad and there is no point in me making it worse, imo. - Sitush (talk) 18:58, 18 August 2011 (UTC)