George Nedham or Needham (died 1584) was an English entrepreneur and prospector associated with copper mining at Keswick in Cumbria. Nedham's family was...
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ores and send skilled workmen to Scotland. The miners of Keswick were reluctant to get involved, and Nedham wrote to the merchant Lionel Duckett for advice...
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Isobel Wood, and their family is documented. George Bowes and Francis Nedham (a son of George Nedham or Needham) reported on the state of the mines...
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Nicholas Repynghale 1442 John Nedham and William Cumberford of Cumberford 1447 John Nedham and John Cudworth 1449 John Nedham and Thomas Everdon 1449-1450...
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Derby. At Caldbeck near Keswick, in 1602, Bowes and Francis Nedham (a son of George Nedham or Needham) reported on old copper workings and lead which contained...
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include a full description of his operations written by a colleague George Nedham. Gans's most dramatic scientific discovery was to reduce the time to...
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continued, managed by a local landowner Richard Dudley of Yanwath, and George Nedham. From 1581, some technological improvements were trialled by Joachim...
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chemistry and mineralogy and, as reported by George Nedham, again had to send one of his workers, a Dutch miner called Rennius, to Daniel Hechstetter at Keswick...
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