Josiah Wedgwood
1730–1795 · Person
Potter, industrialist and abolitionist — mass production with taste, the Etruria works, and the 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother?' medallion.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, England, United Kingdom (combined), Master, People
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
Around 1730
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- George Washington (1732)