Evan Evans (* 4 August 1765 in Llanelltyd, Caernarvonshire, Wales; "† 9 December 1844 in Geyer) was an English spin master and machine-builder. It is considered as the founders of the industriellen cotton spinning mill in Saxonia.

Evans worked first in Manchester and became acquainted with the brothers Bernhardt, which were for study of the English textile machines in the city. Later it followed their invitation to Saxonia and arranged starting from 1798 the Bernhardt spinning mill in hardstrikes with Chemnitz to the largest mechanical spinning mill of the world over. In it 14,970 spindles for Mulettwist were operated.

After Evans moves 1801 with his Mrs. Lowry (Laura), geb. to Richards to Saxonia was, he worked first as a spin master in hardstrikes, made themselves however soon as a machine technical designer independent.

1804 Evans also the again established second spinning mill building of the brothers Bernhardt in hardstrike out. 1810 developed in the center of the place a further work, so that with Bernhardt with the putting into production in the year 1812 18,592 spindles ran.

Evans developed and improved in the future further Mulegarnspinnmaschinen. For this it established several in the ore mountains. Its first mechanical engineering workshop developed 1807 in Dittmannsdorf with Zschopau.

The mechanical plants of the spinning mills, like also its workshops, equipped by him, were with priority operated over under utilization of water power of the ore mountain rivers, in addition, over horse strength.

Also the technical equipment of the cotton spinning mill Clauss (at that time Seeber) in Plaue with was a work of Evans. The work was sketched, had been established between 1807 and 1809 by the Chemnitzer architect Lohse, it already the Bernhard factory.

1809 it shifted its workshop after Geyer, where the tin mining industry lay down and became the most important entrepreneur of the city. Nearly all at this time spinning mills developed in the ore mountains were technically equipped by Evans.

On 14 August 1812 Evans of the hermaphrodite stick trade union in Geyer bought the area of the Hohneujahrer and upper Neidhardter and pounding works for 300 Taler, which was on the corridors of the manor fir mountain. It began here with the establishment of its own cotton spinning mill, for which likewise the Chemnitzer industrial building master Johann trusting God Lohse supplied the structural drawings. After the factory had taken up its enterprise in filter yards, Evans sold it to 1814 for 19.000 Thaler to its wife, who received an advance for the further development of the spin mill building on 6 August 1814 from 6000 Talern from the royally Saxonian main replacing Casse, about which their 1834 2,925 Taler became to issue. Due to the waived continental barrier the work had to fight much with the English competition and came with the mortgage repayment in delay. But other works it met still harder, Bernhardt in hardstrikes went 1819 into bankruptcy.

He dedicated himself to the construction of the spin technology with priority, he developed among other things a spindle grinding machine and a yarn reeling machine. Also for the manufacturing of the grooving cylinders he found a machine solution.

After his death its son Eli Evans took over the enterprise. Its pupils developed the technology further of the textile industry in Saxonia.

The Evans spinning mill in filter yards burned 1896 out, in the reconstruction went through aborts of whole building parts and transformations, how the omission of the one pool of broadcasting corporations roof, Lohses lost much of original architecture.

Related links

• Evans spinning mill in filter yards
• further pictures of today's condition of the Evans spinning mill filter yards
• "Evan Evans and the King OF Saxony" school project as play over the life of the inventor
• Grave of Evans in Geyer
• Biografie with Institut for Saxonian history and Volkskunde

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