Metallurgist Johann Conrad Fischer, 1773-1854
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1947
- Pages 53pp; illus
- Publisher George Fischer Ltd
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Johann C Fischer, 1773-1854, was a pioneering Swiss steel and iron maker who visited the UK nine times between 1794 and 1851, recording in his diaries (those for only six visits survive) observations on British industrial development, notably in the iron & steel industry. See other entries in BHE for the content of his diaries