Platt, John

has biography | a une biographie: English manufacturer of textile machinery and Liberal politician in the nineteenth century. He was owner of the Platt Brothers & Co., which, by the mid-nineteenth century, was the largest manufacturer of textile machinery in the world. This machinery was used to process cotton - produced in plantations in the Caribbean or USA, or colonial or semi-colonial conditions in India or Egypt.
was born | est né: 15 September 1817
died in | est mort par: 18 May 1872
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Hansard; Global Threads; Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

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