John Baildon
John Baildon ( born December 11, 1772 in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland; † August 7, 1846 in Gliwice, Upper Silesia ) was a Scottish- German civil engineer and designer.
Life and career
John Baildon studied mechanics, hydraulics and technical drawing by Daniel Manson in Stirling. In 1789 he met the Prussian Oberbergamt Commissioner Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden from Upper Silesia know. By supporting John Smeaton, one of the greatest engineers of that time, he received 21 years the place of the technical consultant and was involved in the construction of the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry in Gliwice. Baildons task was to design the coke blast furnace for smelting of iron ore and oversee its operation.
After commissioning, on September 10, 1796 then flowed from the blast furnace, the first ( historically ) pig iron. His blast furnace was the first of its kind on the European mainland. These smelters in Domb in Katowice, were named after him Baildonhütte. It was a Puddlingswerk with four puddling furnaces. A road at the Baildonhütte was named after him Baildonstraße ( ulica Johna Baildona ).
According to his construction plans of Klodnitzkanal has been created with a length of 46 km in the years 1792-1812.
On the design and casting of the components of the oldest iron arch bridge on the European mainland via the Striegauer water at Laasan, Circle Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, he was also involved. She was the first gusseisenere bridge in Germany. The five arches were cast in 1974-1975 ironworks in Malapane and erected July 30, 1796. These cast iron bridge, with a span of 12.5 meters, lasted about 148 years and was blown up in the spring of 1945.
In 1799 Baildon and Johann Friedrich Wedding drafted the plans and cost estimates for the Chorzów Chorzów, which was the most important metallurgical plant in Europe at that time. Bailton made the drawings for the first steam blowers this hut as he also designed the machine tools of the Royal hut in Gliwice, and built in 1800-1802 there the first two coke ovens. On September 25, 1802, the first of the coke blast furnaces, the largest blast furnace of the continent was blown. To the honor of the founder of Friedrich Wilhelm work of speeches he was called speech oven.
He was also the designer of the first operating steam engine in Germany. The machine parts have been cast in the Royal Hut in Gliwice. This steam engine was from 1800 to 1824, so about 25 years at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin ( KPM ) in operation.
John Baildon married in 1804 with Helene Galli, settled in Gliwice and lived there until the end of his life. The cast-iron tomb is located on the Gliwice Steelworks cemetery and was reconstructed in 2012. His son Arthur Adam John Baildon (1822-1909) was knighted as " Baildon and Briestwell " in 1881.