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Iron is the outlier at 1538 °C (2800 °F), [21] making it far more difficult to melt in antiquity. Cultures developed ironworking proficiency at different rates; however, evidence from the Near East suggests that smelting was possible but impractical circa 1500 BC, and relatively commonplace across most of Eurasia by 500 BC. [ 22 ]
A Syracuse China example of mid-20th-century restaurant ware made of ironstone china.. In the United States, ironstone ware was being manufactured from the 1850s onward. The earliest American ironstone potters were in operation around Trenton, New Jersey. [13]
The J. L. Mott Iron Works was established by Jordan L. Mott in New York City in the area now called Mott Haven in 1828. [2] Mott was previously a grocer but he transitioned to iron works when he invented the first cast iron stoves that could burn anthracite coal. [ 1 ]
The history of branding is very much tied to the history of using animals as a commodity. The act of marking livestock with fire-heated marks to identify ownership begins in ancient times with the ancient Egyptians. [1] The process continued throughout the ages, with both Romans and American colonists using the process to brand slaves as well. [2]
Griswold "slant logo" cast-iron skillet, manufactured approximately 1915 Griswold "small logo" cast-iron skillet, manufactured between 1940 and 1957. Griswold cast-iron pots and pans, skillets, dutch ovens, and other kitchen items had a reputation for high quality, and they are well known to antique collectors and sellers. The easily recognized ...
The entrepreneurial founder, Joseph Winn Fiske (May 22, 1832 — October 20, 1903 [3]) out-sourced the iron and zinc-alloy foundry-work itself, [4] and concentrated on the firm's connections with modellers on the one hand and customer relations on the other.
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Cast iron development lagged in Europe because wrought iron was the desired product and the intermediate step of producing cast iron involved an expensive blast furnace and further refining of pig iron to cast iron, which then required a labor and capital intensive conversion to wrought iron.