distinction as a mining engineer, by designing a water-powered hoist for raising barrels of ore from the copper mine at Falun in 1693 that attracted the attention of mining engineers from all over Europe
brass, and in 1703 began to operate an iron foundry. During this period he brought to Bristol skilled copper and brass workers from the area around La Vielle Montagne (Altenberg) near Aachen. During the first [...] first decade of the eighteenth century he developed links with Shropshire. He established a copper smelter and a brass works in Coalbrookdale and in 1708 leased the Coalbrookdale blast furnace, which had [...] and to roll both iron and brass. Darby rebuilt the blast furnace and from 1709 began to smelt iron ore with coke. It is now believed that his predecessor at the furnace, Shadrach Fox, may have used coke
other machine tools able to cut gear wheels and screws. He built equipment for blast furnaces, gold ore washing plants, and saw mills and flour mills in the Nizhny Tagil region. From 1820 he built about [...] first Russian steam locomotive which was set to work on a railway with cast-iron track that served a copper mine. He received little encouragement from his employers and the locomotive was eventually replaced
