His family was one of the wealthiest families in Mexico: his grandfather had founded the Compañía Industrial de Parras, which was initially involved in vineyards, cotton, and textiles, and later expanded into mining, cotton mills, ranching, banking, coal, rubber, and foundries in the later part of the nineteenth century.

The more practical aspects of his work in Poland involved the design of mines and metal foundries.

** Rope made from straw was used by thatchers, in the packaging industry and even in iron foundries.

The most popular and accepted of the job case designs in America was the California Job Case, which took its name from the Pacific coast location of the foundries that made the case popular.

Multi-threshold CMOS ( MTCMOS ), now available from foundries, is one approach to managing leakage power.

In March 2000, Bitstream launched MyFonts, an open marketplace offering fonts from various foundries.

Type foundries have cast fonts in lead alloys from the 1450s until the present, although wood served as the material for some large fonts called wood type during the 19th century, particularly in the United States.

Heavy industry also contributed its share of waste into the river from wool scouring plants in Fremantle to fertilizer and foundries sited in the Bayswater-Bassendean area.

From 1830 to 1880, more than two hundred vessels were built along the Great Egg Harbor River with lumber from native forests and iron from Weymouth foundries.

Futura's success spawned a range of new geometric sans-serif typefaces from competing foundries, and remains one of the most used sans-serif types into the twenty-first century.

A slag by-product of such workings was a colorful, glassy, vitreous material found on the surfaces of slag from ancient copper foundries.

The canal company were authorised to build tramroads from the canal to connect with nearby industries, and various foundries and quarries operated their own tramroads.

Moldmakers are generally employed in foundries, where molds are used to cast products from metals such as aluminium and cast iron.

The iron was supplied by William Hazledine from his foundries at Shrewsbury and nearby Cefn Mawr.

Fluxes are also used in foundries for removing impurities from molten nonferrous metals such as aluminum, or for adding desirable trace elements such as titanium.

In addition, during this time, Indians, particularly Sikhs from the Punjab arrived in Birmingham, many of them working in the foundries and on the production lines in motor vehicle manufacturing, mostly at the Longbridge plant some 10 miles away.

Merchant foundries, on the other hand, find work from the worldwide pool of fabless companies, and by careful scheduling, pricing, and contracting keep their plants at full utilization.

In January 1992 police inspectors from Dijon, Burgundy, arrested Hain and seized about 20 metric tons of bronze sculptures in various foundries in Burgundy and Paris.

Metro was developed by Linotype in the late 1920s in response to similar type being sold from European foundries such as Erbar, Futura, and Gill Sans.

The name " Ironbound " was once said to have originated from the many forges and foundries that were found in this area during the latter half of the 19th century, however, the name probably came from the rail tracks that surrounded the area when the railroads were constructed during the 1830s.

Additionally, type at this time was not standardized, either to body size or to base line, and printers resented the incompatibility of types from different foundries.

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and dry docks in Ferrol were taken over by the state and fully nationalized in 1945 under the name " Bazàn ", later renamed " IZAR ", and, starting from January 2005, Navantia.

The land that is now St Leonards was once owned by the Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman origin who owned the adjacent manor of Hollington, and subsequently by their descendants, the Eversfields, who rose to prominence from their iron foundries and widespread property holdings during Tudor times.

Industries vital to the war effort – shipyards, steel foundries, machinery, and chemical producers – operated on a 24-hour basis.

Revivals of the Garamond type came as early as 1900, when a typeface based on the work of Jean Jannon was introduced at the Paris World ’ s Fair as " Original Garamond ", whereafter many type foundries began to cast similar types, beginning a wave of revivals that continued throughout the 20th Century.

Although for a time between 1680 and 1730, Barnstaple's trade was surpassed by Bideford, it retained its economic importance until the early 20th century, when it was manufacturing lace, gloves, sail-cloth and fishing-nets, it had extensive potteries, tanneries, sawmills and foundries, and shipbuilding was also carried on.

They contain Le Brun's residence and workshops that served as foundries for most of the bronze statues in the park of Versailles, as well as looms on which tapestries are woven following seventeenth century techniques.

The economic development of the nineteenth century was based on iron foundries and mills in the surrounding region.

At the same time there has been a renaissance in small-scale type foundries to produce new metal type on Monotype equipment, Thompson casters and the original American Type Founders machines.

The merchant foundries sold wafer capacity on a surplus basis, as a secondary business activity.

Iron foundries spend a considerable effort on aggressive dust collection to capture this fine silica.

Although very fast, vertically parted molds are not typically used by jobbing foundries due to the specialized tooling needed to run on these machines.

Numerous foundries were established in the area, which had a significant impact on the growth of the local population.

The very first boxes erected on the mainland are not recorded, but the designs varied from area to area as each District Surveyor issued their own specifications and tendered to their own chosen foundries.

Despite the destruction and requisition equipment from the time of World War I, the plant worked until 1938 was in the 20s of the abandoned smelting iron ore to iron foundries, and the buildings survived until 1945, when they were destroyed during heavy fighting on the town.

It developed as a small center of commerce in the 13th century, based on forges and foundries ( perhaps the origin of the saint's association with chains ) and leatherworking, with communal consuls who were in charge of defending its rights and privileges-its " liberties " in the medieval sense.

Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers.

Many British technical advisors continued to work in the Spanish shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and dry docks ( on both sides ) during the war.

There were many licensors and also many foundries competing on the market.

Garfield's earliest settlers were predominantly blue-collar Irish laborers and their families, who worked in the mills and foundries down along the Allegheny River, shopped in local stores on Penn Avenue, and built and lived in modest brick foursquare homes on the streets running up from Penn Avenue.

Katorga labor was used for mining lead ore and silver on emperor's private lands ( so called kabinetskiye zemli, or cabinet lands ) and in foundries, wine-making and salt-processing factories.