Iwan Simonis
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Iwan Simonis | |
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| Born | 6 January 1769 |
| Died | |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, industrialist |
| Spouse | Marie Agnès de Grand’Ry |
Iwan Simonis (full name Jean-François Dieudonné Simonis) was a Belgian entrepreneur and industrialist who was involved in the first introduction of machines to the production of textiles in Belgium. His family owned the textile firm Simonis et Biolley, after a merger resulting when his sister Marie Anne Simonis married Jean-François Biolley.
John Cockerill and Textile Mechanization
[edit]Verviers and its surroundings produced high-quality textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries, by the end of which cottage industry gradually gave way to work in localized manufactories. In 1799, Iwan Simonis arranged to pay British entrepreneur William Cockerill to construct spinning machines and other textile-production devices in a factory in Verviers, the first step towards machine factories taken in the region. After the machines proved effective, in 1801, Simonis was recognized by the firm with a bonus of 20,000 francs.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Gutmann, Myron P. (1988). Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in Europe, 1500-1800 (1st ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. pp. 194–206. ISBN 0-394-34312-3.
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