Charles Gascoigne

Charles Gascoigne (1737–1806) was a British industrialist at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Gascoigne was an architect, mechanic, inventor, businessman and industrialist. He spent the final twenty years of his life in the Russian Empire, gaining fame as an engineer-inventor, entrepreneur, and specialist in production.

Gascoigne is regarded as the founder of the industrial city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, in 1795.

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