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"he's been largely forgotten by time" Perhaps he himself is not well known, but the eponymous company he started in 1759 was the watchword for high-end ceramic
by ddoran 8y ago
"he's been largely forgotten by time"
Perhaps he himself is not well known, but the eponymous company he started in 1759 was the watchword for high-end ceramics for more than two centuries and is still sold to this day.
Towards the end of the 20th century, consumer tastes changed and the company faced stiff competition from cheaper imports. Wedgwood merged with another luxury goods company Waterford Crystal in 1987, to become Waterford Wedgwood. The combined companies fared no better as a unit and went into administration in 2009 though the Wedgwood brand survives after being purchased by a private equity company and now a Finnish consumer goods company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterford_Wedgwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterford_Wedgwood
- anigbrowl 8y agoReally I think this is just standard America-centric writing - Josiah Wedgewood isn't well-known in the US, so the writer assumes his prior ignorance to be universal. Kinda the same way that many Americans think the telephone and television were invented here.
- empath75 8y agoI don’t even think that’s accurate. If you watch antiques roadshow, wedgewood pottery comes up all the time. Anybody that’s into antiques knows about them.
- gerdesj 8y agoInteresting you picked on two Scottish inventions. Given that Bell founded AT&T, the invention of telephony being a US thing is at least debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell . TV was a bit more British ... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird)