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Carrie Furnace is a former blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, and it had formed a part of the Homestead Steel Works. The Carrie Furnaces were built in 1884 and they operated until 1982. During its peak, the site produced 1,000 to 1,250 tons of iron per day. [3]
John Wilkinson was born in Little Clifton, Bridgefoot, Cumberland (now part of Cumbria), the eldest son of Isaac Wilkinson and Mary Johnson. Isaac was then the potfounder at the blast furnace there, [3] one of the first to use coke instead of charcoal, which was pioneered by Abraham Darby.
Blast furnace 3, including the cast house, is one of the main components of the museum and features numerous information plates, exhibition pieces and documentary films on monitors. The blast furnace also serves as an observation platform. An elevator has been installed. A colorful light installation illuminates the blast furnace at night.
File information Description Bolckow Vaughan blastfurnacemen pose for a photograph in front of their blast furnace at Middlesbrough. Early 20th Century. Stated on Communigate to be 'courtesy of Corus plc' (now part of Tata Steel) which is presumed to have inherited Bolckow, Vaughan's photographic archives via Dorman Long and then British Steel.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, of Iron being forged at Neabsco "from pigs imported from Maryland; and Taylor's forge on Neapsco of Patowmac, works in the same way, but to what extent I am not informed." [5] The site offered 3–5000 acres of trees for firewood mostly to make charcoal to heat the blast furnaces.
With a single blast furnace and three basic oxygen process furnaces, [17] amongst other various mills and production facilities, the plant produces 2.4 million tons of raw steel per annum [17] and 640,000 tons of seamless tubular and sheet products, mainly for purchase by the booming oil industry.
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The first furnace at the site was built in 1868 by the Lock Ridge Iron Company, on the line of the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad near its junction with the East Pennsylvania Railroad. The company was taken over the next year by the Thomas Iron Company, and a second furnace put in blast shortly thereafter.