CHAPTER IX. 



JOSIAH WEDGWOOD TAKES INTO PARTNERSHIP HIS RELATIVE 

 THOMAS WEDGWOOD. RALPH WEDGWOOD. HIS POT 

 WORKS IN STAFFORDSHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. HIS INVEN- 

 TIONS. THE POCKET SECRETARY AND THE MANIFOLD 



WRITER. INVENTION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 

 SCHEME OFFERED TO AND REJECTED BY GOVERNMENT. 

 JOHN TAYLOR WEDGWOOD, THE LINE ENGRAVER. HIS 

 WORKS. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD'S CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE. 



PROCURES CLAYS FROM AMERICA. ALEXANDER CHISHOLM. 

 INTRODUCTION OF "BASALTES," OR "EGYPTIAN BLACK" 

 WARE. 



HAVING by this time firmly established the manufacture of 

 his staple .commodity, " Queen's Ware," and placed its pro- 

 duction on a sure and lasting basis, and having by the 

 improvements of the roads, and the construction of the 

 canal, removed the only impediments which seemed to fix 

 a limit to its consumption, from a want of easy and more 

 rapid conveyance of raw materials to, and finished goods 

 from, the pot district, Wedgwood felt that it was time 

 to relieve himself to some extent from the weight of a 

 constant personal supervision. He desired to be more free 

 from this now established branch of his business, in order 

 that he might devote himself more to the study of chemistry, 

 and of clays and other mineral substances, with a view to 

 the production of those higher classes of goods for which his 

 manufactory afterwards became so justly famous. " With 

 this view, and to reward the merit of a worthy man, a 

 relation, Mr. Thomas Wedgwood, who had been some years 

 a faithful and industrious foreman in the manufactory," he 

 entered into partnership with that gentleman, giving him 

 a share of the profit in, with the entire direction of, that 



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