Abraham Darby is the name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution.

The first Abraham Darby (b. circa 1678 - d. March 8, 1717) was a Quaker who started his trade at Bristol where he developed the use of moulds for casting iron and brass goods at the Baptist Mills Brass Works . Leaving Bristol in 1709, he became an iron-master with an iron-works at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire.

At the time the normal way of producing iron was the "bloomery method", in which small batches of iron ore were placed in pans, covered with charcoal, and then blown with a bellows. Charcoal was one of the few fuels that could reach the required temperatures to smelt iron, around 1500C, and as the iron industry grew and chopped down entire forests to produce it, it became increasingly expensive. The iron industry as a whole was continually moving to new locations in an effort to maintain access to charcoal production.

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