wedgwood造句
31. The poet-physician Erasmus Darwin and the industrial potter Josiah Wedgwood were close friends among a circle of mechanical-minded Dissenters from the Anglican Church.
32. Wedgwood experimented with barium sulphate (caulk), and from it produced jasper, in 1773.
33. Concern for all things lowly was almost an article of faith for the Wedgwood cousins, who taught young Darwin to euthanize earthworms in brine before impaling them on a fishhook.
34. This made for tremendous growth in the pottery and porcelain industry, and the prosperity of such companies was Wedgwood, Spode and Royal Doulton.
35. At Waterford in Ireland and Wedgwood in the UK, hundreds of jobs have been lost at the parts of the business that KPS is not buying, including its Irish production and sales arm.
36. Darwin's mother, who died in 1817, was a Wedgwood; he himself married Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin.
37. Streamlining a company's back-office operations is another way to trim costs, he says, adding that Waterford Wedgwood has four "silos" for sales and marketing of different families of products.
38. Darwin and Wedgwood shared a hatred of the slave trade, contributing money and propaganda — in the form of anti-slavery verse and ceramic curios — to the "sacred cause" of abolition.
39. The firm's latest deal, to buy out of receivership much of Waterford Wedgwood, the maker of crystal and ceramic tableware, is a typical target – and KPS's most notable transaction in Europe to date.
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