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The investors rebuilt the iron works and resumed production, opening a new blast furnace in 1837 and other improvements over the decades. A scene of the activity at the furnace, published by a lithographer from Philadelphia, shows two chimneys and wooden railings around their base level atop the two-story bloomery.
The Iron Rolling Mill (Eisenwalzwerk), 1870s, by Adolph Menzel. Casting at an iron foundry: From Fra Burmeister og Wain's Iron Foundry, 1885 by Peder Severin Krøyer. An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.
Stewart Iron Works is an American ironworks plant in Erlanger, Kentucky. It is one of the region's oldest manufacturing firms and at its peak was the largest iron fence maker in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Stewart's is the second-oldest iron company in continuous operation in the United States. [ 3 ]
Brillion Iron Works, or BIW, was a foundry and a manufacturer of farm implements located in Brillion, Wisconsin. BIW produced approximately 145,000 net tons of gray and ductile iron castings annually, ranking it among the top ten independent foundries in the United States .
The Mesker Brothers Iron Works and George L. Mesker & Co. were competing manufacturers and designers of ornamental sheet-metal facades and cast iron storefront components from the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century. The Mesker Brothers Iron Works was based in St. Louis, Missouri, and was
Oregon Iron Works, Inc. (OIW) is an American manufacturer of complex structural components and systems and specialized vehicles, located in the Clackamas area in the southeastern suburbs of Portland, Oregon (within the Portland metropolitan area). Established in 1944, it is involved in a number of different industries, supplying products ...
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site is a National Historic Site about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Boston in Saugus, Massachusetts.It is the site of the first integrated ironworks in North America, founded by John Winthrop the Younger and in operation between 1646 and approximately 1670.
The iron works, which had an anti-union leadership team, was bombed on Christmas Day 1910, most likely by Ortie McManigal, an associate of those responsible for the L.A. Times bombing two months earlier. [3] [4] The dynamite explosion at Redondo and Main injured a night watchman. [2] The company moved its factory to Torrance in 1912. [2]