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  2. History of Sheffield - Wikipedia

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    The history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area now known as Sheffield had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age , but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...

  3. Mary Florence Potts - Wikipedia

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    Mary Florence Potts (née Webber; November 1, 1850 – June 24, 1922) was an American businesswoman and inventor.She invented clothes irons with detachable wooden handles, and they were exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition World's Fair and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

  4. Sheffield Residential Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Sheffield Residential Historic District is a historic district in Sheffield, Alabama. The district contains 678 contributing properties covering 160 acres (65 ha) that represent the growth of the town from its founding in the 1880s through the 1950s. The town of Sheffield was founded in 1883, on the former site of a town known as York Bluff.

  5. Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Jessop tilt hammer, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. The site was used for iron forging for 500 years, although there is evidence of other metal working before 1200. Its early history is intimately tied with the nearby Beauchief Abbey, which operated a smithy (blacksmith's shop) in the vicinity as well as number of mills along the River Sheaf.

  6. Firth Brown Steels - Wikipedia

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    It was named Norfolk Works and had crucible furnaces, a file making shop and what was, at the time, the largest rolling mill in Sheffield. In the 1850s and '60s Thomas Firth supplied Samuel Colt with most of the iron and steel used at his firearms factories both at Hartford Connecticut and the short-lived facility in Pimlico, London. Business ...

  7. Sheffield Archives - Wikipedia

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    The rich industrial history of the Sheffield area is represented in the large collections of business records, which cover iron and steel, silver plate, coal mining and cutlery firms to professional firms of solicitors, land surveyors, auctioneers and architects.

  8. The Sad and Brutal True Story Behind Wrestling Drama ‘The ...

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    The Iron Claw stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson as wrestling royalty, the Von Erich family.The real-life family reigned supreme in the sports world during the 1980s ...

  9. John Brown (industrialist) - Wikipedia

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    He was born at Sheffield in Flavell's Yard, Fargate, on 6 December 1816.He was the second son of Samuel Brown, a slater of that town. He was educated at a local school held in a garret, and was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to Earl, Horton, & Co., factors, of Orchard Place, In 1831, his employers engaged in the manufacture of files and table cutlery, taking an establishment in Rockingham ...