Abraham Darby II

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Abraham Darby II (1711 – 1763) was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that was key in the development of the Industrial Revolution. He followed in his father's footsteps at the Darby foundry in Coalbrookdale, refining techniques for producing wrought iron from pig iron and producing the iron to replace the more expensive brass cylinders used in Thomas Newcomen's steam engines.

[edit] See also

• Abraham Darby I
• Abraham Darby III

[edit] External links

• The Darby family of inventors
• The Darby family
• The Darby dynasty
• The Darby House
• The Coalbrookdale Company, with which the family was associated

Persondata
NAME	Darby, Abraham, II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Ironmaster
DATE OF BIRTH	1711
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	1763
PLACE OF DEATH