Abraham Darby Inventions

Innovations and inventions make a huge impact on work. Every day people attempt to create an impact in the world through these innovations or inventions. Many people have created an impact in different eras through their own ideas, innovations, or inventions, including Abraham Darby. Darby was an iron founder, copper smelter, brass manufacturer, but what Darby is best known for is his invention of coke as a source of fuel. This allowed Darby to make an impact during the Industrial Revolution. Without Darby’s findings of coke as a source of fuel, energy would have been much harder to find or to make to allow many factories to be in business as well as allow the electric machines to run. Before Abraham Darby even thought about the creation of coke as a source of fuel, he had a few other businesses and coalitions that he focused on. One of the first things Darby did was, he “set up business as a malt-mill maker in Bristol, probably in Cheese Lane” (Cox, Oxford). This did not last very long, as Darby’s next business included him setting up an iron pot foundry in the same place, Cheese Lane. While Darby did fairly well in this business, he only stuck with it for a few years, as rumours
Because of the lack of forward progress as well as profit, Darby had to find a new way to make an impact. According to Quakers in Science and Industry, “this was provided by Darby’s development of cast iron pots and pans, and by the discovery by others of the value of cast goods.” (Raistrick, 94). Since the Industrial Revolution revolved around many iron made parts, Darby’s idea was another great one. Not only did Darby’s ideas make an impact on the Industrial Revolution, “it was this section of the industry that developed most rapidly under the demand for cast iron parts for the steam engine and also for pipes and structural work, in the latter half of the eighteenth century.” (Raistrick,