Individual itineraries and the circulation of scientific and technical knowledge in East Asia (16th–20th centuries)

Project director : Catherine Jami (SPHERE); Jean-Pierre Dedieu (LARHRA)

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fichoz ID00000059
NameShimomura Kōtaro 下村孝太郎
BiographicalNumber of events=25

DateActionPlaceRelated
Actors
1861=09=26

Birth

Kumamoto 熊本(Japan)Shimomura Benji
1873=00=00
to
1876-06-01

Enters the Kumamoto Yōgakko 熊本洋学校 where he studies under Captain Leroy Janes

Kumamoto 京都 (Japan)Janes , Captain Leroy Lansing
1873=00=00
to
1876-06-01

Enters where he studies under Captain Leroy Janes Kumamoto Yōgakko 熊本洋学校

Kumamoto 熊本 (Japan)Kumamoto School of Western Learning, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Japan 熊本洋学校
1876=00=00

Moves to Kyoto and enters Dōshisha English School 同志社英学校

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)
1876=10=05
to
1879-06-30

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Dōshisha University Dôshisha English School 同志社大学 (同志社英学校)
1879-06-30

Graduates Dōshisha English School 同志社英学校

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Dōshisha University Dôshisha English School 同志社大学 (同志社英学校)
1880=06=30
to
1880=06=30

Graduates from Worcester Technical Institute

Worcester, Mass. (USA)Worcester Technical Insitute
1885-07-01
to
1885<09<01

Leaves Kyoto for Worcester, Massachesetts, US for study at Worcester Technical Institute Kyoto

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)
1885=09=01
to
1888=06=30

Arrives in Worcester, Massachusetts, US to study at the Worcester Technical Institute

Worcester, Mass. (USA)Worcester Technical Institute, Massachussetts, USA
1886=07=01
to
1937=10=21

Shimomura was a founding member

Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Mission (SVM)
1895=01=31

Birth of Shimomura Akira 下村明, first child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Shimomura Kotaro 下村孝太郎
1895=05=18

Resigns from the position of the teacher at Dôshisha and the head of Harris School of Schience at Dôshisha

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)
1897=07=06
to
1897=07=06

Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield writes to Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 advising against the grinding of coal before washing it.

Sheffield (United Kingdom)Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎
1897=08=13

Birth of Simomura Kyôko, second child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Shimomura Kōtaro 下村孝太郎
1898=06=15
to
1898=06=15

Shimomura Kôtaro explains to the Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield that he wants to grind coal before washing; does not want to use their elevators in the washing plant but rather use human labor

Osaka 大阪 (Japan) Cecil Walton (Hardy Patent Pick)
1898=09=01
to
1898=09=01

Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield writes to Shimomura Kôtarou 下村孝太郎 declaring griding before washing as suicidal and threatening not to send the washing and griding plant if Shimomura insists on using it in invers order.

Sheffield (United Kingdom)Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎
1898=09=06
to
1898=09=06

Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield writes to Shimomura Kôtarou 下村孝太郎 repeats the inadvisability of griding before washing and suggests to send the plans laid out as they think best before sending the plant.

Sheffield (United Kingdom)Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎
1899=04=28

Birth of Shimomura Kôji 下村孝次, third child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎
1905=00=00
to
1907=03=00

Nakamura comissioned Shimomura to build Semet-Solvay coke ovens at Yawata Steel Plant 八幡製鉄所

Kitakyushu 北九州 (Japan) Shimomura Kotaro 下村孝太郎
1906=09=00
to
1909=00=00

Kuroad Taizô, fresh out of university arrives at Imperial Yawata Steel works at the onset of the Solvay coking plant totaling 150 ovens lead by Shimomura Kôtaro

Kitakyûshi 北九州 (Japan)Kuroda Taizô 黒田泰造
1906=11=00
to
1909=00=00

Shimomura Kôtaro leads the building of six batteries of 25 ovens each at ImperialYawata Steel Works 八幡製鉄所

Kitakyushu 北九州 (Japan) ImperialYawata Steel Works 八幡製鉄所
1914=08=14

In the course of an experiment related to dye stuffs production, an explosion occures in Shimomura private laboratory in Kyoto, he suffers burns to face and hands and loses his eyesight

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)
1915=00=00

Tract written in English, contianing technical drawings from his personal notes, drafted after the laboratory accident in 1914.

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Rise and Development of Semt-Solvay Coke Ovens
1931=00=00

The autobiography of Shimomura Kôtaro published in Kyoto in 1931

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Waga shûkyô kan 和が宗教観
1938=00=00

Collection of speeches given at the first year anniversary of Shimomura Kôtaro's death.

Kyoto 京都 (Japan)Shimomura Kōtaro 下村孝太郎

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