William Brownrigg
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William Brownrigg was a British doctor and scientist, who practised at Whitehaven in Cumberland. While there, Brownrigg carried out experiments that earned him the Copley Medal in 1766 for his work on carbonic acid gas. He was the first person to recognise platinum as a new element.
Portrait of biographer William Brownrigg. Public library and Museum, Whitehaven.
The Art of making common salt, 1748
Whitehaven
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Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It lies by road 38 miles (61 km) south-west of Carlisle and 45 miles (72 km) to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It was the administrative seat of the former Borough of Copeland, and has a town council for the parish of Whitehaven. The population of the town was 23,986 at the 2011 census.
Whitehaven Market Hall
Matthias Read's view of Whitehaven, circa 1738, showing the planned town of Sir John Lowther.
Saltom Pit 1729–1848, pioneer of undersea mining.
Carlisle Spedding's "steel mill"