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  2. Take a Tour of Queen Elizabeth’s Crumbling Maltese Mansion

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    While some architectural details hint at its former glory—an intricately carved lion and cherub guard a staircase, regal wrought-iron stairway railings flank the balconies—the manse’s ...

  3. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren House - Wikipedia

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    [17] [19] The outer windows on the second story have wrought-iron railings and recessed limestone panels on each side. [12] [17] All three second-story openings are casement windows with transoms and wrought-iron guards. [20] Above each of these windows is a recessed spandrel panel made of limestone, with bas-reliefs of various motifs. [18]

  4. Iron railing - Wikipedia

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    Designs for decorative railings from 1771. Passers-by look for the phantom railings in Malet Street. An iron railing is a fence made of iron. This may either be wrought iron, which is ductile and durable and may be hammered into elaborate shapes when hot, or the cheaper cast iron, which is of low ductility and quite brittle. Cast iron can also ...

  5. Cast-iron architecture - Wikipedia

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    The puddling process, patented in 1784, was a relatively low cost method for producing a structural grade wrought iron. Puddled wrought iron was a much better structural material, and was preferred for bridges, rails, ships and building beams, and was often used in combination with cast iron, which was better in compression.

  6. Wrought iron - Wikipedia

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    Wrought iron is a form of commercial iron containing less than 0.10% of carbon, less than 0.25% of impurities total of sulfur, phosphorus, silicon and manganese, and less than 2% slag by weight. [18] [19] Wrought iron is redshort or hot short if it contains sulfur in excess quantity. It has sufficient tenacity when cold, but cracks when bent or ...

  7. John Birkinshaw - Wikipedia

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    John Birkinshaw (1777–1842) was an English railway engineer from Bedlington, Northumberland, noted for his invention of wrought iron rails in 1820 (patented on October 23, 1820). [ 1 ] Up to this point, rail systems had used either wooden rails, which were totally incapable of supporting steam engines, or cast iron rails typically only 3 ft ...

  8. Bedlington Ironworks - Wikipedia

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    Bedlington Ironworks, in Blyth Dene, Northumberland, England, operated between 1736 and 1867.It is most remembered as the place where wrought iron rails were invented by John Birkinshaw in 1820, which triggered the railway age, with their first major use being in the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825, about 45 miles (72 km) to the south.

  9. Sidney Hill Cottage Homes - Wikipedia

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    The third, or south side, is enclosed by a low terrace wall with wrought iron gates. A large stone sundial , with a spreading base, is set in the centre of the quadrangle. In their original form, each house had a living room, with a small scullery , larder, coal house , and one bedroom with a large storeroom.

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