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Sir Richard Tangye 1833-1906

Sir Richard Tangye 1833-1906


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'We launched the Great Eastern and she launched us' - Sir Richard Tangye. In January 1858 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern, at that point the largest ship ever built, was, after several failed attempts, finally launched into the Thames. The powerful hydraulic jacks that enabled the ship to get afloat were manufactured by Tangye Brothers of Birmingham. For this firm of Cornish-born engineers the launch of this great ship was the breakthrough they had been waiting for. By the end of the nineteenth century the Tangye Brothers' business employed 2000 workers and had come a long way from a packing room divided into two by brown paper stretched over a wooden frame. The life-story of Richard Tangye was held up in Victorian Britain as an outstanding example of what a man could achieve by determination, single-mindedness and sheer hard work. Born in a cottage in a small village near Redruth, he died in a mansion near the Thames. Tangye was undoubtedly a brilliant entrepreneur, but, as he acknowledged, his brothers were also brilliant engineers. Bound together by family ties, the talented Tangye Brothers created one of the most famous industrial success stories of the nineteenth century. Using autobiographies, periodicals and letters from the time, this book tells the story of how five brothers, with Richard leading the way, left Cornwall to establish a great engineering company, how they became generous benefactors in their adopted town, establishing the Art Gallery and School of Art, and how, in search of profits and adventure, they travelled across the globe. The reader will be left in no doubt as to why Richard Tangye was known as 'the foremost Cornish man of his day'.
About the Author: Stephen Roberts is the author of many books. His main areas of interest are Chartism and Victorian Birmingham. He is the co-editor of The Parliamentary Career of Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp 1826-1855 (Mellen, 2010) and, most recently, editor of The Dignity of Chartism: Essays by Dorothy Thompson (Verso, 2015). He was for many years a Fellow at the University of Birmingham.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781512207910
  • Publisher: Createspace
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Cornish Entrepreneur in Victorian Birmingham
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1512207918
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 159 gr


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