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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.
Details of ironwork on the central portal of the west facade of Notre Dame de Paris (France). Wrought ironwork is forged by a blacksmith using an anvil.The earliest known ironwork are beads from Jirzah in Egypt dating from 3500 BC and made from meteoric iron with the earliest use of smelted iron dates back to Mesopotamia.
Pontypool Ironworks – see also known as Blaendare Ironworks, Race Ironworks; Race Ironworks – see Pontypool Ironworks; Rhymney Ironworks; Rudry Ironworks; Sirhowy Ironworks; Stepaside Ironworks or Kilgetty Ironworks; Stuart Ironworks - a later name for Hirwaun Ironworks; Tintern Ironworks; Tondu Ironworks; Tredegar Ironworks; Treforest ...
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.
Engelsberg Ironworks (Swedish: Engelsbergs bruk) is an ironworks in Ängelsberg, a village in Fagersta Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden. It was built in 1681 by Per Larsson Gyllenhöök (1645–1706) and developed into one of the world's most modern ironworks in the period 1700–1800.
Bersham Ironworks were large ironworks at Bersham, near Wrexham, Wales. They are most famous for being the original working site of John Wilkinson . They were also the first site in the world to use a new way of boring holes in cannon and steam engine cylinders.
The Tannehill Ironworks is the central feature of Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park near the unincorporated town of McCalla in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. [2] Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Tannehill Furnace , it was a major supplier of iron for Confederate ordnance. [ 3 ]
The ironworks used the limonite ore from nearby to make iron. To smelt the iron, coal and limestone were also necessary [ 1 ] and both limestone and the limonite were mined from the hills behind the works and ferried to the works 2.4 km away, [ 2 ] in buckets via an aerial ropeway. [ 1 ]