Henry(Henric,Henrik) Kalmeter^[1]

1693 - 1750  (57 years)

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  Name	Henry(Henric,Henrik) Kalmeter
  Birth	1693
  Gender	Male
  Death	1750
  Occupation	1719 (26 years) - Swedish mining authority; the Bergskollegium, Sweden  - employed by the Swedish mining authority, the Bergskollegium
  	1719 (26 years) - Scotland  - Henry Kalmeter was a young Swedish writer who came to Scotland in 1719 and 1720 to report on mining and new technologies
  	1720 (27 years) - Scotland  - Henry Kalmeter was a young Swedish writer who came to Scotland in 1719 and 1720 to report on mining and new technologies
  	1724 (31 years) - The Journal of a visit to Cornwall, Devon and Somerset in 1724-5' Henrik Kalmeter
  	1725 (32 years) - The Journal of a visit to Cornwall, Devon and Somerset in 1724-5' Henrik Kalmeter
  Person ID	I13296	AHP
  Last Modified	25 May 2025

  
  

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  [S37] Wikipedia. Henry Kalmeter Henry Kalmeter was a young Swedish writer who came to Scotland in 1719 and 1720 to report on mining and new technologies. He was employed by the Swedish mining authority, the Bergskollegium. Kalmeter had an uncle who taught music in Edinburgh. Proprietors were naturally secretive about their methods, anxious to protect their commercial advantages, so Kalmeter's and James Hope of Hopetoun's travels can be regarded as early forms of industrial espionage. Kalmeter visited Leadhills, and heard how the mines came into the Hope family by a marriage to an heiress. He described the Raik or Reckhead vein, mined at the High Works, the Brown vein, and Laverock Hall vein, and "Watboth" vein. Timber for the mines was brought from Annandale. Lord Hopetoun exported the ore to a company of merchants in Rotterdam. The Hope crushing mill and windmill in Leith had been forced to close due to commercial pressure from the Rotterdam company. Kalmeter drew a diagram of the smelting-hearth method used at Leadhills.The nearby lead mines at Wanlockhead belonged to the Duke of Queensberry. Kalmeter visited other mines in Scotland, commented briefly on some historic sites, and described the Leith Sugar House.[60] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_mining_in_Scotland#Henry_Kalmeter