William Reynolds (industrialist)

William Reynolds (14 April 1758 – 3 June 1803) was an ironmaster and a partner in the ironworks in Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England.

[1][2] William Reynolds's education included some time studying with the physician and chemist Joseph Black.

[1][3][4] Reynolds constructed three tub boat canals, which brought coal and iron ore a short distance from local mines to the ironworks.

They included an invention of Reynolds, an inclined plane: this was a method of raising canal boats from one level to another.

[1][2] In January 1802 Richard Trevithick came to Coalbrookdale, where boiler plates for steam engines had been made for some time.