Neilson, James Beaumont
Description
Inventor of the hot blast method of iron making.
Dates
| / /1816 | Clyde Iron Works Colin Dunlop, son of James Dunlop, takes over. James Beaumont Neilson developed Hot Blast Ironmaking here at this time. |
| /08/1839 | William Baird & Co Stop paying dues for James Beaumont Neilson^s hot blast patent. |
| / /1843 | William Baird & Co William Baird & Co taken to court for not paying dues for James Beaumont Neilson^s hot blast method of iron making. (The Bairds lose.) |
| / /1855 | Neilson & Co Re-formed from Mitchell & Neilson, under control of Walter Montgomerie Neilson, son of James Beaumont Neilson who invented the Hot Blast for blast furnaces |
