Wedgwood

Dorn, H. (1970-1980) Memoir of Josiah Wedgwood, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 13, ed. Gillispie, C.C. (Scribner s Sons, New York) p. 213. 

One of the patrons found him a house on the outskirts of Birmingham, where he could live comfortably and devote himself to scientific experimentation. Priestley set up a scientific laboratory in the house. While he lived there some of his patrons died or stopped contributing, but there were always others willing to take their places. Dr. Erasmus Darwin and the pottery designer and manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, the two grandfathers of Charles Darwin, were among those who contributed to his support. 

In the following year Hatchett was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1798 he analyzed an earthy substance, sydneia, which Josiah Wedgwood had found in New South Wales and another specimen of it provided by Sir Joseph Banks (5). This, according to Wedgwood, was composed of a fine white sand, a soft white earth, some colourless micaceous particles, and some which were black. Hatchett found it to consist of siliceous earth, alumine, oxide of iron, and black lead or graphite and concluded that the Sydneian genus, in future, must be omitted in the mineral system. ... 

The fame of Wedgwood was so great that Iris works position amongst the national industries. Every ... 

Daring his lifetime, Wedgwood sold his ware of ceramic art manufacturers. Messrs, Maw aro more ... 

In the manufactories of Wedgwood and Copeland, the lathes are driven by engine power, the arrangement... 

The temperature of the kiln averages ahout 27 Wedgwood. The mass shrinks in the baking from ten to twelve, fourteen, or even fifteen per cent, according ta ite composition. 

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