03882oam 22006254a 450 991052470360332120231115162534.0(CKB)4100000010461091(OCoLC)1131891888(MdBmJHUP)muse82068(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88944(EXLCZ)99410000001046109120100407h20191996 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican Iron, 1607-1900Robert B. GordonJohns Hopkins University Press1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 341 pages) :)illustrations, mapsJohns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ;[new ser., no. 19]Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License1-4214-3500-4 1-4214-3502-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-330) and index.1. Iron -- 2. Ore, Fuel, and Other Natural Resources -- 3. The Rise of American Iron, 1720-1860 -- 4. Smelting with Charcoal -- 5. Converting Pig Iron to Wrought Iron -- 6. Coal-Fired Blast Furnaces -- 7. Steel -- 8. Shaping Iron and Steel -- 9. Iron Quality -- 10. Ironmaking Eclipsed, 1860-1900 -- 11. The Industrial Archaeology of Iron -- Appendix A Metallography -- Appendix B Iron Production Data.In American Iron, 1670-1900, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an ambitious, comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the twentieth century. Closely examining the techniques - the "hows"--Of ironmaking in its various forms, Gordon offers new interpretations of labor, innovation, and product quality in ironmaking, along with the industry's environmental consequences. He shows the high level of skills required to ensure efficient and safe operation of furnaces and to improve the quality of iron product. By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals.Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ;new ser., no. 19.Iron-worksfast(OCoLC)fst00979359IronMetallurgyfast(OCoLC)fst00979114IronMetallurgyHistory19th centuryIronMetallurgyHistory18th centuryIron-worksNorth AmericaHistory19th centuryIron-worksNorth AmericaHistory18th centuryNorth AmericafastHistory.United StatesIronProductionIron-works.IronMetallurgy.IronMetallurgyHistoryIronMetallurgyHistoryIron-worksHistoryIron-worksHistory669/.141/097Gordon Robert B(Robert Boyd),1929-1102009MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524703603321American Iron, 1607-19002784165UNINA