Josiah Wedgwood is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Josiah Wedgwood as English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795).
Josiah Wedgwood was born at Burslem in 1730. His recorded nationality is the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
The record gives his occupations as potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
His work was formally recognised with the Fellow of the Royal Society.
Working from the Kingdom of Great Britain shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 at the age of 65. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Worked as potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist
