10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOOMERIES»
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In 1900 blast furnace establishments employed 17.7 per cent of all labor; steel
works and rolling mills, 82.2 per cent; and forges and bloomeries, one-tenth of 1
per cent. In 1890 blast furnaces employed 19.5 per cent of the total; steel works ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, William Mott Steuart, 1908
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Estimates of Population 1904, 1905, 1906: Including the ...
At the census of 1905 the labor employed by blast furnaces constituted 14.5 per
cent of the total; that employed by steel works and rolling mills, 85.5 per cent; and
that employed by forges and bloomeries was, in comparison, a negligible ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1907
0.6 1880 2,939 i 2,875 3 i 97 8 01 2.1 At the census of 1905 the labor employed
by blast furnaces constituted 14.5 per cent of the total; that employed by steel
works and rolling mills, 85.5 per cent; and that employed by forges and
bloomeries ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1908
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The Early Iron Industry of Furness and Districts: An ...
After that year and until 1615-1620, wiiich we may call the third period, the
manufacture of iron ceased to exist as a trade, but was carried on in bloomeries
by the tenants of Furness Fells to supply their owrn wants. The fourth, that of the ...
The ore was smelted in 'bloomeries,' small iron furnaces dating from Norman
times. Coniston shore was a very convenient site and bloomeries flourished
along its length. Along the beach and by every stream was a bloomery. The ore
was ...
Aileen Evans, Brian Evans, 1994
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Iron and Steel Production
In ancient times, iron was manufactured in bloomeries. Their height did not
exceed 1 or 2 m. The furnace was charged with ore and charcoal, and the blast
was supplied from below by bellows. Because of the low height of the furnace,
the ...
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A History of the Andover Ironworks: Come Penny, Go Pound
11. Tiemann, Iron and Steel, 136. 12. Overman, Manufacture ofIron, 255456. 13.
Tiemann, Iron and Steel, 139. 14. Kitchell, Third Annual Report, 19. Some
Highland bloomeries produced anchors, which found a convenient market in
New York ...
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Practical Building Conservation: Metals
LO 2 PRACTICAL BUILDING CONSERVATION BLOOMERIES The earliest type
of iron-smelting furnaces, known as 'bloomeries'. were pits or chimneys of earth,
clay, or stone, with one or more pipes of clay or metal through the walls at the ...
Sophie Godfraind, Robyn Pender, Bill Martin, 2012
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Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the ...
Colonial ironmasters sometimes built bloomeries to test the quality of ore
deposits before they would commit to building a furnace. Bloomeries also offered
adventurers another advantage; they required relatively little labor. It took fewer
than ...
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American Iron, 1607-1900
Table 4-2 Fuel-to-iron Ratio of American Bloomeries source: S. G. Hermelin,
Report about the Mines in the United States of America, 1 783, translated by
Amandus Johnson (Philadelphia: John Morton Memorial Museum, 1931), for
1783; Louis ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOOMERIES»
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bloomeries is used in the context of the following news items.
The Industrial Revolution That Never Was
Most were bloomeries, glorified blacksmith shops in which an ironmaker – often a slave unable to refuse a dangerous job – would heat a lump ... «blogs.hbr.org, Jul 14»
When the Lord of the Manor had a monopoly on milling
Incidentally, it is not known where the iron came from but there are known to have been several bloomeries (an old term for the early equivalent ... «Pendle Today, Apr 14»
The evidence and the secrets of ancient bloomery ironworking in …
The book provides a typology of Norwegian bloomeries, separating four main types corresponding to the early iron age (types 1a and 1b), ... «Steel Times International magazine, Aug 13»
South Shore Cranberry Bogs Through the Ages–Part 2: Bog iron …
They built bloomeries near the bogs, piles of bog iron and charcoal made from the oaks and maples that predominated the landscape. «95.9 WATD-FM, Oct 11»
No global warming: Charcoal fuels 80% of Africa
Prior to 1840 the great majority of iron produced in America came from bloomeries and forges fueled by charcoal. Charcoal produced pig iron ... «International Business Times, Dec 10»
