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Carron Company, the Glossary

The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland.^[1]

81 relations: Abbotshaugh Community Woodland, Abraham Darby I, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Franklin, Birmingham, Blast furnace, Bo'ness, Board of Ordnance, Business magnate, Cannon, Carronade, Cast iron, Catherine the Great, Charcoal, Charles Gascoigne, Charlotte Dundas, Chemist, Clyde Tunnel, Coal mining, Coalbrookdale, Cockenzie and Port Seton, Coke (fuel), East Lothian, Falkirk, Franke (company), Giles Gilbert Scott, Govan, Henry Cort, Henry Shrapnel, Howdon, Incorporation (business), Industrial Revolution, Infrastructure, Insolvency, Iron ore, Ironworks, James Watt, Jarrow, John Roebuck, John Smeaton, Kolpino, Long gun, MV Panagiotis, Navagio Beach, Oven, Petrozavodsk, Physician, Pig iron, Pillar box, Plastic, ... Expand index (31 more) »
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Stenhousemuir

Abbotshaugh Community Woodland

The historic site of Abbotshaugh Community Woodland, located on the south bank of the River Carron, has witnessed many changes over the past 500 years. Carron Company and Abbotshaugh Community Woodland are Stenhousemuir.

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Abraham Darby I

Abraham Darby, in his later life called Abraham Darby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as Abraham Darby I (14 April 1677 – 5 May 1717, the first and best known of several men of that name), was a British ironmaster and foundryman.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as British prime minister.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blast furnace

A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.

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Bo'ness

Borrowstounness (commonly known as Bo'ness) is a town and former burgh and seaport on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Board of Ordnance

The Board of Ordnance was a British government body.

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Business magnate

A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Carronade

A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.

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Charles Gascoigne

Charles Gascoigne (1737–1806) was British industrialist at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

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Charlotte Dundas

Charlotte Dundas is regarded as the world's second successful steamboat, the first towing steamboat and the boat that demonstrated the practicality of steam power for ships.

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Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm(ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchemist) is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field.

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Clyde Tunnel

The Clyde Tunnel is a crossing beneath the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland for road traffic, cyclists and pedestrians.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Coalbrookdale

Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge and the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting.

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Cockenzie and Port Seton

Cockenzie and Port Seton (Cockennie; cove of Kenneth) is a unified town in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content.

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East Lothian

East Lothian (Aest Lowden; Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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Franke (company)

Franke Holding AG, based in Aarburg, Switzerland, is an industrial manufacturer with companies located around the world.

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Giles Gilbert Scott

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, and designing the iconic red telephone box.

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Govan

Govan (Cumbric: Gwovan; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland.

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Henry Cort

Henry Cort (c. 1740 – 23 May 1800) was an English ironware producer who was formerly a Navy pay agent.

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Henry Shrapnel

Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell.

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Howdon

Howdon is a largely residential area in the eastern part of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Incorporation (business)

Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Insolvency

In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company (debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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Jarrow

Jarrow is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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John Roebuck

John Roebuck of Kinneil FRS FRSE (1718 – 17 July 1794) was an English industrialist, inventor, mechanical engineer, and physician who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid.

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John Smeaton

John Smeaton (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.

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Kolpino

Kolpino (Ко́лпино; Kolpina, Kolppina) is a municipal city in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the Izhora River (tributary of the Neva) southeast of St. Petersburg proper.

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Long gun

A long gun is a category of firearms with long barrels.

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MV Panagiotis

The Panagiotis (Παναγιώτης) is a shipwreck lying in the white sands of an exposed cove on the coast of Zakynthos, which is among the southernmost of the Ionian Islands of Greece.

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Navagio Beach

Navagio Beach (Greek: Παραλία Ναυάγιο), or Shipwreck Beach, is an exposed cove, sometimes referred to as "Smugglers Cove", on the coast of Zakynthos, in the Ionian Islands of Greece.

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Oven

A double oven A ceramic oven An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment.

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Petrozavodsk

Petrozavodsk (p; Karelian, Vepsian and Petroskoi) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Pig iron

Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate good used by the iron industry in the production of steel.

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Pillar box

A pillar box is a type of free-standing post box.

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Plastic

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.

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Puddling is the process of converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace.

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Receivership

In law, receivership is a situation in which an institution or enterprise is held by a receiver – a person "placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others, including tangible and intangible assets and rights" – especially in cases where a company cannot meet its financial obligations and is said to be insolvent.

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Red telephone box

The red telephone box, is a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for Liverpool Cathedral.

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River Carron, Forth

The Carron (Gaelic: Carrann) is a river in central Scotland, rising in the Campsie Fells and flowing along Strathcarron into the Firth of Forth. Carron Company and river Carron, Forth are Stenhousemuir.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army regiments, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and five Army Reserve regiments.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Samuel Garbett

Samuel Garbett (1717– 5 December 1803R. H. Campbell, ‘Garbett, Samuel (1717–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004) was a prominent citizen of Birmingham England, during the Industrial Revolution, and a friend of Matthew Boulton.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carron_Company

Also known as Carron Iron Works, Carron Ironworks, Carron Phoenix, Carron Works, Carron bath.

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Carron Company, the Glossary

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1759 establishments in Scotland

1982 disestablishments in Scotland

British companies disestablished in 1982

British companies established in 1759

Companies based in Falkirk (council area)

Ironworks and steelworks in Scotland

Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1982

Manufacturing companies established in 1759

Stenhousemuir

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