Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A whitesmith is a person who works with white or light coloured metal s such as tin and pewter . Unlike blacksmiths who work mostly with hot metal , whitesmiths do the majority of their work on cold metal although they might use a hearth to heat and help shape their raw materials . The term is also applied to metalworkers who do only finishing work such as filing or polishing on iron and other black metals. Whitesmiths fabricate items such as tin or pewter cups, water pitchers, forks, spoons, and candle holders and it was a common occupation in pre industrial times. Metalworking navbox smithopen Wiktionary Category Metalsmiths Decorative art stub Metalworking stub ... more details
The Fichtelgebirge Museum lang de Fichtelgebirgsmuseum is a regional museum in Wunsiedel , formerly the capital of the Sechs mterland and the county town Kreisstadt in the Fichtelgebirge mountains of central Germany. File Innenhof FGM.jpg thumb Museum inner courtyard Formerly important trades, such as those of the whitesmith and the pottery potter , were superseded during the 19th century by new industries. This generated a desire in the Fichtelgebirge region in 1907 to protect old trade skills and a museum was founded by the Fichtelgebirge Club . Since 1964 it has been located in a wing of the Sigmund Wann Hospital Spital , founded in the 15th century and which acted as a nursing home . In the 1980s other hospital buildings were converted and the museum attached. In 2004 the last two houses were opened. In the first new building a Blue Dyeworks Blue Printers , Children s World Play World and museum warehouse accessible to the public have been created. In the second new building is the museum library and workshops and offices. In a further nine houses the museum has well over 2500 m of exhibition area. The north wing houses the Prehistoric , Geology , Mineralogy and Mining Departments. Its centrepiece is a mineral collection of about 2000 individual rocks and crystals, that come mainly from the Fichtelgebirge , the northern Upper Palatine Forest , the M nchberg Gneiss Massif and the Franconian Forest . In the south wing are the Regional and Cultural History departments. Of particular note is the collection of painted furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries from the Fichtelgebirge. There is also information about the author Jean Paul 1763 1825 and the political assassin Karl Ludwig Sand 1795 1820 both born in Wunsiedel. Workshops On the ground floor of the north wing are three workshop s a forge smithy , a pottery and a whitesmith s to give visitors an insight into these formerly important trades. The blacksmith and whitesmith offer demonstrations on request or fo ... more details
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Whitesmiths Ltd. was a software company based in Westford, Massachusetts . It sold a Unix like operating system called Idris operating system Idris , as well as the first commercial C programming language C compiler , Whitesmiths C . The Whitesmiths compiler, written for the PDP 11 , was released in 1978 and compiled a version of C similar to that accepted by Version 6 Unix Dennis Ritchie s original C compiler . It was an entirely new implementation, borrowing no code from Unix. Today, it is mainly remembered for lending its name to a peculiar indent style Whitesmiths style indentation style , originally used in the code examples which accompanied it. Whitesmith s first customer for their C compiler was Fischer & Porter , a process control company then located in Warminster, Pennsylvania . In 1983 Whitesmiths formed a technical and business alliance with France based COSMIC Software . At that time, Whitesmiths published 16 bit compilers for machines like PDP 11 while COSMIC published 8 bit compilers for Intel and Motorola CPU s. This technology alliance improved compilers for both markets. Whitesmiths was actively involved in developing the original ANSI C standard supplying several members to the standards committee and hosting some technical sessions. They were one of the first suppliers of an ANSI C compliant compiler. The company s president from 1978 to 1988 was P. J. Plauger . Whitesmiths merged with Intermetrics in December 1988, leading to further M&A . External links http www.cosmic software.com Official homepage of Cosmic Software software company stub Category Software companies of the United States pt Whitesmiths ru Whitesmiths ... more details
J. Metalworking Trades in Early America The Blacksmith, Whitesmith, Farrier, Edgetool Maker, Cutler ..., Whitesmith, Farrier, Edgetool Maker, Cutler, Locksmith, Gunsmith, Nailer and Tinsmith. Astragal ... more details
Image Photo 066 1200x673.jpg thumb right Tinsmith from Libya Image Tin lamp 1930s.jpg .jpg thumb right Tinware Desk Lamp, late 1930s, Bandelier National Monument . Made by a Civilian Conservation Corps tinsmith. A tinsmith , or tinner or tinker or tinplate worker , is a person who makes and repairs things made of light coloured metal , particularly tinware . By extension it can also refer to the person who deals in tinware. Training of tinsmiths The tinsmith, or whitesmith, learned his trade, like many other artisans, by serving an apprentice ship of 4 to 6 years with a master tinsmith. He learned first to make cake stamps cookie cutter s , pill boxes and other simple items. Next, he formed objects such as milk pails, basins, cake and pie pans. Later he tackled more complicated pieces such as chandeliers and crooked spout coffee pots. After his apprenticeship was completed, he then became a journeyman, not yet being a master smith employing others. Many young tinsmiths took to the road as peddlers or tinkers in an effort to save enough money to open a shop in town. Raw material Main Tinplate Tinplate consists of sheet iron coated with tin and then run through rollers. This process was first discovered in the 16th century, but was hardly introduced to England until about the 1720s. Previously Great Britain had imported most tinplate from Hamburg . The British Iron Act of 1750 prohibited amongst other things the erection of new rolling mills , which prevented the erection of new tinplate works in America until after the American Revolution . Certificates submitted by colonial governors to the British Board of Trade following the Act indicate that no tinplate works then existed though there were several slitting mill s, some described as slitting and rolling mill s. Pure tin is an expensive and soft metal and it is not practical to use it alone. However it could be alloyed with lead and copper to make pewter or alloyed with copper alone to produce bronze . Today s tinp ... more details
Infobox UK place official name Chiddingly country England region South East England static image static image caption small small area footnotes ref name ESiF cite web url http www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk webview title East Sussex in Figures accessdate 2008 04 26 publisher East Sussex County Council ref area total km2 17.6 population 1,006 population ref Parish 2007 ref name ESiF population density convert 148 sqmi km2 abbr on os grid reference TQ543142 latitude 50.91 longitude 0.19 post town LEWES postcode area BN postcode district BN8 dial code 01825 constituency westminster Wealden UK Parliament constituency Wealden london distance convert 43 mi Boxing the compass NNW shire district Wealden shire county East Sussex website http www.chiddingly.gov.uk Chiddingly IPAc en icon t d l a respell CHID ing lye is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex , some five miles 8 km northwest of Hailsham . The parish is rural in character it includes the village of Chiddingly and a collection of Hamlet place hamlets the largest of these being Muddles Green and Thunder s Hill others being Gun Hill, East Sussex Gun Hill , Whitesmith, Golden Cross, Broomham and Upper Dicker. ref http www.chiddingly.gov.uk History Parish 20Maps.html Map showing location of Chiddingly ref It covers convert 7 sqmi km2 of countryside. Of the more than 340 dwellings in the parish, over fifty have the word Farm in their postal address. Geography The parish is in the Low Weald . Like Rome , it is founded upon seven hill s Thunders Hill Gun Hill Pick Hill Stone Hill Scrapers Hill Burgh Hill and Holmes Hill, ref http www.chiddingly.gov.uk Parochial 20History 20of 20Chiddingly Part 201.html Parochial history of Chiddingly ref the latter being on the A22 road in the south of the parish. Tributaries of the River Cuckmere flow both north and south of the village. History The presence of low grade Iron ore Magnetite banded iron deposits iron ore in the Hastings Bed ... more details
Image John the Painter.jpg thumb right 250px 1777 illustration of James Aitken, better known as John the Painter John the Painter 1752 1777 , also known as James Aitken or John Aitkin , was a Scot who committed acts of terrorism terror in Kingdom of Great Britain British naval dockyards in 1776 77. Early life Aitken was born in Edinburgh in 1752, the son of a whitesmith and the eighth of twelve children. ref name Holgate, Andrew cite web url http www.timesonline.co.uk article 0,,2102 1476331,00.html title Biography John The Painter by Jessica Warner author Holgate, Andrew work The Times date 2005 02 13 accessdate 2008 01 18 location London ref The early death of his father assured him a good education at the charitable school of George Heriot s School George Heriot s Hospital , which was founded to care for the puir, fitherless bairns Scots poor, fatherless children of Edinburgh. Upon leaving school, he tried his hand at a variety of low paying trades before finding that the world of criminal activity offered him more immediate rewards. He admitted in his testament to being a highwayman , burglar , shoplifter , robber , and on at least one occasion a rapist blockquote I made the best of my way through Winchester to Basingstoke , intending to return to London. Going over a down near Basingstoke, I saw a girl watching some sheep, upon whom, with some threats and imprecations, I committed a rape, to my shame it be said. ref cite book author Aitken, James title The Life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter year 1777 page 22 ref blockquote Career as a terrorist Fearful that his crimes would soon be detected, Aitken negotiated an indenture in exchange for a voyage to Jamestown, Virginia Jamestown , Virginia . He, of course, had no real intention of serving the terms of the indenture, and soon escaped to North Carolina . His next two years in the colonies were spent in such locales as Philadelphia , Boston , New York City New York , and Perth Amboy, New Jersey ... more details
general improvements needed plus links Infobox person name Joseph Fry image alt caption birth name birth date 1728 birth place death date Death date and age 1787 03 27 1728 00 00 df y death place Bristol resting place Quakers Friars Friars, Bristol nationality English other names known for Type founder and chocolate maker occupation Joseph Fry 1728 27 March 1787 , was an English type founder and chocolate maker and founder of the Bristol branch of the Quaker Fry family chocolate Fry family He was the eldest son of John Fry d. 1775 of Sutton Benger , Wiltshire, author of Select Poems, 1774, 4th edition, 1793. He was educated in the north of England, and afterwards bound apprentice to Henry Portsmouth of Basingstoke , an eminent doctor, whose eldest daughter, Anna, he afterwards married. He was the first member of his family to settle in Bristol, where he acquired a considerable medical practice, and was led to take a part in many new scientific undertakings . ref Hugh Owen, Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol, 1873, p. 218 ref After a time he abandoned medicine for business pursuits. He helped Richard Champion in his Bristol china works, and began to make chocolate, having purchased Walter Churchman s patent right. The chocolate and cocoa manufactory thus started has been carried on by the family down to the early twentieth century. The success of John Baskerville caused Fry to turn his attention in 1764 to type founding, and he entered into partnership with William Pine, the first printer of the Bristol Gazette , who had a large business in Wine Street. Their new type may be traced in several works issued between 1764 and 1770. The manager of Messrs. Fry & Pine was Isaac Moore, formerly a whitesmith at Birmingham, ref E. Rowe Mores, Dissertation upon English Typogr. Founders, 1778, p. 83 ref after whose speedy admission to partnership the business was removed to London, and carried on as Isaac Moore & Co., in Queen Street, near Upper Moorfields. Luckombe mention ... more details
notability Music date November 2011 refimprove date November 2011 Infobox musical artist name Trachtenburg Family br Slideshow Players image Trachtenburgs photo 4 2011.jpg caption The Trachtenburg Family background group or band genre Anti folk years active 2000 present label Bar None, Tired and Lonesome, Cass, Sarathan, Tummy Touch Management Whitesmith Entertainment website URL http www.slideshowplayers.com current members Jason Trachtenburg br Tina Pi a Trachtenburg br Rachel Trachtenburg Rachel Pi a Trachtenburg The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an indie vaudeville conceptual art rock pop band , from the United States . Originally from Seattle , Washington U.S. state Washington , they are now based in New York City New York , New York . Overview The band s members are the Trachtenburg family father, Jason Trachtenburg, who plays guitar and piano and sings the mother, Tina Pi a, who runs the slide projector and is a backup singer and the daughter, Rachel Trachtenburg Rachel , who plays the Drum kit drums and sings. Born on December 10, 1993, Rachel was only six years old when she began performing publicly. Their trademark is the slideshow itself slides collected from estate sale s, garage sale s, thrift stores , etc. are constantly shown in order to turn the lives of annonymous sic strangers into pop rock musical expos s based on the contents of these slide collections . The band sings about things that occurred in the places shown in the slides, such as public execution Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959 and McDonald s competitors using network television to take advantage of efficiency Wendy s, Sambo s and Long John Silver s . Tina designs the clothing worn by the group and created the famous Rachel dolls, which are based on her daughter. All three Trachtenburgs are vegetarian s and members of the 4th Street Food Co op . As of 2006, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are part of the USA Network s Characters Welcome campaign. Ti ... more details
Image Aaron Buzacott elder.jpg thumb right Rev. Aaron Buzacott the elder Aaron Buzacott the elder March 4, 1800 September 20, 1864 , a Congregationalist colleague of John Williams missionary John Williams the Martyr of Erromanga , author of ethnographic works and co translator of the Bible into the language of Rarotonga, was a central figure in the Pacific Ocean South Seas missionary work of the London Missionary Society , living on Rarotonga one of the Cook Islands between 1828 and 1857. Early life Greatly influenced by his mother, he was born in South Moulton, Devon where his father was a whitesmith and ironmonger and the family attended the local Congregational chapel. Sarah, his wife, was also from South Moulton, and became known for her educational work and writings in the South Seas mission. Her sisters also married missionaries, and her brother, Mr George Hitchcock, a friend and neighbour of Samuel Morley MP Samuel Morley s at St Paul s Churchyard, became noted for his support of Congregationalism and his support for the nascent YMCA Young Men s Christian Association YMCA . Aaron Buzacott entered Hoxton Academy in 1820 and devoted himself for three years to the study of general and classical literature and frequently attended the metropolitan Methodist chapels, the Whitefield s Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Court Road Chapel and Whitefield s Tabernacle, Moorfields Moorfields Chapel Whitefield s Tabernacle . Expressing an interest in missionary work, his tutors commended him to the Board of the London Missionary Society, and after examination they accepted him for training at their Mission College under Dr Bogue. Upon his death the students were transferred to Highbury College and the old Hoxton Academy near London. He completed his course in 1826, being ordained in January 1827 at Castle Street Congregational Church in Exeter . He married Miss Hitchcock the following month and later that year the couple set sail, via Tahiti, for Rarotonga in the ... more details
Use dmy dates date August 2011 Use British English date August 2011 Infobox person name Sir William Hartley fullname Sir William Pickles Hartley image alt caption birth date Birth date df yes 1846 02 23 birth place Colne , Lancashire death date Death date and age df yes 1922 10 25 1846 02 23 death place nationality English other names known for Jam manufacturing occupation Sir William Pickles Hartley 23 February 1846 25 October 1922 , jam manufacturer and philanthropist, founded the Hartley s jam company. He was born in Colne , Lancashire and attended a local British and Foreign School Society school. Biography He was the only surviving child of John Hartley, a whitesmith, and his wife, Margaret Pickles. The family had lived near Pendle since c. 1620 and worked as grocers, building Wycoller Hall towards the end of the 16th century. He married Martha Horsfield. The business started in 1871 as the result of a chance event. It is said that when a supplier failed to deliver a batch of jam, William made his own. His jam, marmalade and jelly sold well in his own distinctive earthenware pots and in 1874 the business transferred to Bootle . In 1880 Hartley moved to Southport , where he became as an influential local benefactor and entrepreneur, and an active member of the local Methodist Church . One of his daughters, Southport General Infirmary Christiana Hartley Maternity Hospital Christiana b. 1872 , became Southport s first woman Mayor in 1921. Other children included Maggy, Polly, Sarah, John and Clara. Cephas Hartley was instrumental in reviving Elmfield College when it was in danger of collapse in 1906. Philanthropy Hartley was a Primitive Methodist and applied his Christian principles to business. In 1888 he built a model village at Aintree the following year he introduced a profit sharing scheme, the results each year being announced at a special ceremony, with music and speeches. He claimed that the wages he paid to women and girls four fifths of the workforce wer ... more details
otherpersons Infobox person name Matthew Murray image Murray Matthew from Roe 1916.png image size alt portrait of Matthew Murray 1765 1826 , English engineer caption Matthew Murray 1765 1826 birth name birth date 1765 birth place Newcastle upon Tyne death date death date 1826 02 20 death place death cause resting place Holbeck, Leeds resting place coordinates coord LAT LONG display inline,title residence nationality English citizenship British other names known for Steam engines, locomotives, machine tools, machinery notable works Round Foundry, Salamanca locomotive occupation Engineer, millwright, machine tool builder, entrepreneur, manager years active home town spouse children parents relations signature signature alt Image The Collier aquatint by Robert Havell 1814.jpg thumb The Collier 350px right The Collier , aquatint by Robert Havell published in 1814, showing a Matthew Murray steam locomotive The Salamanca Salamanca on the Middleton Railway Matthew Murray 1765 20 February 1826 was an England English steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable steam locomotive , the twin cylinder The Salamanca Salamanca in 1812. He was an innovative designer in many fields, including steam engines, machine tools and machinery for the textile industry. Early years Little is known about Matthew Murray s early years. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1765. He left school at fourteen and was apprenticed to be either a blacksmith or a whitesmith . In 1785, when he concluded his apprenticeship, he married Mary Thompson 1764 1836 of Whickham , County Durham. The following year he moved to Stockton on Tees Stockton and began work as a journeyman mechanic at the flax mill of John Kendrew in Darlington , where the mechanical spinning of flax had been invented. ref name Warden1967 1864 Harvnb Warden 1967 . ref Murray and his wife, Mary, had 3 daughters and a son, also called Matthew. ref name Rolt1962 Harvnb Rolt 1962 . ref Leeds ... more details
File Inside of a tin platted can.jpg right thumb Tin layer on the inside of a tin can Tinning is the process of thinly coating sheets of wrought iron or steel with tin , and the resulting product is known as tinplate . It is most often used to prevent rust . While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin can s. Formerly, tinplate was used for cheap pots, pans and other holloware . This kind of holloware was also known as tinware and the people who made it were tinplate workers. The untinned sheets employed in the manufacture are known as black plates. They are now made of steel, either Bessemer process Bessemer steel or open hearth. Formerly wrought iron iron was used, and was of two grades, Coke fuel coke iron and charcoal iron the latter, being the better, received a heavier coating of tin, and this circumstance is the origin of the terms coke plates and charcoal plates by which the quality of tinplate is still designated, although iron is no longer used. Tinplate was consumed in enormous quantities for the manufacture of the tin can s in which preserved meat , fish , fruit , biscuit s, cigarette s and numerous other products are packed, and also for the household utensils of various kinds made by the tinsmith . History The practice of tinning ironware to protect it against rust is an ancient one. This may have been the work of the whitesmith . This was done after the article was fabricated, whereas tinplate was tinned before fabrication. The manufacture of tinplate was long a monopoly of Bohemia , but about 1620 the industry spread to Saxony . Tinplate was apparently produced in the 1620s at a mill of or under the patronage of the Earl of Southampton, but it is not clear how long this continued. Andrew Yarranton , an English engineer and agriculturist, and Ambrose Crowley blacksmith Ambrose Crowley a Stourbridge blacksmith and father of the more famous Sir Ambrose were commissioned to go to Saxony and if possible discover t ... more details
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