Lancashire Lantern
Lancashire Lantern: Lancashire Pioneers
Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, the Pioneers gives details of people who were famous local people in science, technology and innovation. These pioneers were either born in Lancashire or their endeavours made a significant contribution to the development of the County.
Technology
The following pioneers were involved in technology:
Richard Arkwright (1732 - 1792),
born in Preston; inventor of the water frame for mechanizing cotton spinning and one of the pioneers of the modern factory system.
Several generations from late seventeenth to late nineteenth century. Merchants and manufacturers of sailcloth for the Royal Navy.
Lawrence (Lawrie) Bond (1907 - 1974),
born in Preston, worked in Longridge; Formula Three racing driver whose design of the first three-wheeled Minicar introduced cheap motoring to post-war Britain.
Joseph Gornall (1856 - 1928),
lived at Cabus, patented the 'Gornall Cheesemaker' and wrote and taught on the subject of cheesemaking.
William Windle Pilkington (1839 - 1914),
a prolific inventor whose work secured the future of the glass industry in Lancashire.
James Sumner (1860 - 1924),
an important pioneer of British industry, responsible for turning his father's blacksmithing business in Leyland into a major motor-manufacturing industry.
Sir Henry Tate (1819 - 1899),
born in Chorley, developed a sugar refining business that later became 'Tate and Lyle'. He used his business fortune to build the Tate gallery and to endow colleges, hospitals and libraries.
David Whitehead (1790 - 1865),
born in Rossendale and manufactured cotton there; built a school for cotton workers' children, 80 workers' homes, a Methodist chapel and two cotton mills.
Frank Whittle and Rolls-Royce,
Barnoldswick, developed and pioneered global aerospace since the opening of the site in W.W.2. Rolls Royce has been important locally as a major employer and nationally as the pioneer of national defence and civil aviation.
of Ormskirk, a business man with an inventive mind who is credited with being the first gold-balance maker in an industry which was peculiar to Ormskirk in the 18th century.
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