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, Slavery & Abolition
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
Around 1730
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)