An old engraving of a massive Thwaites and Carbutt steam-hammer It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Robinson Thwaites (1807–1884) was a nineteenth-century mechanical engineer and mill-owner in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. His companies included at different times Robinson Thwaites and Co, Thwaites and Carbutt and Thwaites Brothers. In partnership with Edward Carbutt in 1862 and later in 1880 as Thwaites Brothers, his companies acquired a reputation for its machinery used in the manufacture of iron and in steel using the Bessemer process.
An old engraving of a massive Thwaites and Carbutt steam-hammer It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Robinson Thwaites (1807–1884) was a nineteenth-century mechanical engineer and mill-owner in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. His companies included at different times Robinson Thwaites and Co, Thwaites and Carbutt and Thwaites Brothers. In partnership with Edward Carbutt in 1862 and later in 1880 as Thwaites Brothers, his companies acquired a reputation for its machinery used in the manufacture of iron and in steel using the Bessemer process. Thwaites Brothers continued in production until into the 20th century.
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Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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