Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Ironbridge in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Coke pig iron becomes cheaper than charcoal pig iron & since cast iron was becoming cheaper and more plentiful, it began being a structural material following the building of the innovative Iron Bridge in 1778 by Abraham Darby III
Birth of Billy Wright
Provenance
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