Introduction to a History of Ironmaking and Coal Mining in Pennsylvaniaauthor, 1878 - 125 páginas |
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Página 24 - THOMAS PENN and RICHARD PENN, true and absolute proprietaries and governors in chief of the province of Pennsylvania and counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware...
Página 96 - Authority aforesaid, that from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and fifty, no Mill or other Engine for Slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any Plating forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel, shall be erected, or after such Erections, continued, in any of his Majesty's Colonies in America; and if any Person or Persons shall erect, or cause to be erected, or after such Erection, continue, or cause to be continued, in any of the said Colonies...
Página 50 - As there is no six-pound shot here I have taken the liberty to engage four hundred at Turnbull & Marmie's furnace, which is now in blast.
Página 83 - Durfee, who then made the first Bessemer steel in America. In February, 1865, Mr. Holley was successful at Troy in producing Bessemer steel at experimental works which he had constructed at that place in 1864 for the licensees of the Bessemer patents, Messrs. Winslow, Griswold and Holley. But as the licensees of the Kelly patents could not achieve success without Mr. Bessemer's machinery, and as the owners of the right to use this machinery could not make steel without Mr.
Página 52 - In 1805 there were five furnaces and six forges in Fayette county. In 1811 the county had ten furnaces, one air furnace, eight forges, three rolling and slitting mills, one steel furnace, and five trip-hammers. At a later date there were twenty furnaces in this county.
Página 87 - The first open-hearth furnace introduced into this country for the manufacture of steel by the Siemens-Martin process was built in 1868, by Cooper, Hewitt & Co., proprietors of the works of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company, at Trenton, NJ The...
Página 85 - The first steel rails rolled in the United States upon order, in the way of regular business, were rolled by the Cambria Iron Company, at Johnstown, Pa., in August, 1867, from ingots made at the works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at...
Página 96 - Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel shall be erected, or after such Erection continued in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America ; and if any Person or Persons shall erect, or cause to be erected, or after such Erection, continue, or cause to be continued, in any of the said Colonies, any such Mill, Engine, Forge, or Furnace, every Person or Persons so offending shall, for every such Mill, Engine, Forge, or Furnace forfeit the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain.
Página 109 - Wampanoag war, as well as other iron works and infant enterprises. 1679— In the Statistics of Coal, by Richard Cowling Taylor, published in 1848, it is stated that the earliest historic mention of coal in this country is by the French Jesuit missionary, Father Hennepin, who saw traces of bituminous coal on the Illinois river in 1679. In his journal he marks the site of a "cole mine" above Fort Crevecoeur, near the present town of Ottawa, Illinois.
Página 77 - ... stated by Mr. Davis, their founder, a portion of coke was used to charge the furnace. Their coal belongs to seam No. 1, the seam which is now used at Sharon and Youngstown, in its raw state, variously known as " free-burning splint," or " block coal," and which never makes solid coke.