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A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. [ 1 ] The term millwright (also known as industrial mechanic [ 2 ] ) is mainly used in the United States, Canada and South Africa to describe members belonging to a ...
While millwrighrs have evolved overtime from specialized carpenters who also added the shafts of a water mill to a group of metal working skilled tradesmen who set up the production apparatus in a place such as a power plant, the change is not at any point so abrupt we can justify a category break.
William Hazledine (1734–1818) was a millwright at Shawbury, Shropshire. He married Mary Morgan and they had four sons: John, William, Robert and Thomas. [3] John. John Hazledine was born in 1760. In 1774, he was apprenticed, either to his uncle or his father. In 1782 he married Ann Davies of Eardington. He set up the ironworks, with brothers ...
Oliver Evans was born in Newport, Delaware on September 13, 1755, to Charles and Ann Stalcop Evans. His father was a cordwainer by trade, though he purchased a large farm to the north of Newport on the Red Clay Creek and moved his family there when Oliver was still in his infancy. [1]
The Twin City Carpenters District Council was founded in 1915 to build strength for the Union Locals throughout the area. The Millwrights were already a part of the Brotherhood and additional crafts joined later: Pile Drivers in 1937, Floor Coverers in 1940, and the Lathers in 1979.
The Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers Canada (CMAW) was officially formed in 2007 following an 11-year struggle [clarification needed] with their American-based international parent union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA).
William was the son of a warper and was born in Burnley in 1833. [1] He was educated first at Burnley Lane Head Elementary school and moved with his parents to Little Marsden (today part of Nelson) and completed his education at Little Marsden National School.
Some of the books include, The Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft (ISBN 0-8078-4082-3) and The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge (ISBN 0-8078-5914-1). Roy lent his woodworking expertise to the 2005 movie The New World about the founding of the settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, in the 17th century.