History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages : And Particularly in the United States from Colonial Time to 1891 (Paperback)

Preface; 1. The earliest use of iron; 2. The early use of iron in Europe; 3. Beginning of the British iron industry; 4. The British iron industry from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; 5. The iron industry of Wales, Ireland, and Scotland; 6. The British iron industry built up by British inventive genius; 7. Early processes in the manufacture of iron and steel; 8. Mediaeval and early modern processes in the manufacture of iron and steel; 9. First attempt by Europeans to manufacture iron in the United States; 10. Beginning of the manufacture of iron in the New England colonies; 11. Extension of the manufacture of iron in New England; 12. Early iron enterprises in New York; 13. Early iron enterprises in New Jersey; 14. Beginning of the manufacture of iron in Pennsylvania; 15. The manufacture of iron in Pennsylvania extended to the Susquehanna; 16. Characteristics of the early iron industry of Pennsylvania; 17. The manufacture of iron in Pennsylvania after the Revolution; 18. The manufacture of charcoal iron in the Juniata Valley; 19. The early manufacture of iron in western Pennsylvania; 20. Early iron enterprises in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; 21. The early manufacture of iron in Delaware; 22. Early iron enterprises in Maryland; 23. The iron industry established in Virginia; 24. The manufacture of iron in North Carolina; 25. The manufacture of iron in South Carolina; 26. The early manufacture of iron in Georgia; 27. The early manufacture of iron in Kentucky; 28. The early manufacture of iron in Tennessee; 29. The manufacture of iron in Alabama; 30. Primitive characteristics of the southern iron industry; 31. The early manufacture of iron in Ohio; 32. Early iron enterprises in Indiana; 33. Early iron enterprises in Illinois; 34. Early iron enterprises in Michigan; 35. The early manufacture of iron in Wisconsin; 36. Early iron enterprises in Missouri; 37. The manufacture of iron in Texas; 38. The manufacture of iron in various western states; 39. The iron industry of the Pacific Coast; 40. The first iron works in Canada; 41. The manufacture of iron with anthracite coal; 42. The manufacture of iron with bituminous coal; 43. Statistics of pig iron production in the United States; 44. The manufacture of blister and crucible steel in the United States; 45. The invention of the Bessemer process; 46. The Bessemer process in the United States; 47. The manufacture of open-hearth steel; 48. The early history of iron rails in the United States; 49. Iron shipbuilding in the United States; 50. The history of cut and wire nails; 51. Improvements in American blast furnace practice; 52. The manufacture of tinplates in the United States; 53. Miscellaneous facts relating to the American iron and steel industries; 54. Early discoveries of coal in the United States; 55. British efforts to prevent the development of the American iron industry; 56. The American iron industry long depressed by foreign competition; 57. Impediments to the cheap production of iron and steel in the United states; 58. Washington and Lincoln the descendants of colonial ironmasters; 59. Production and prices of iron and steel in the United States; 60. Imports and exports of iron and steel by the United States; 61. Miscellaneous statistics of iron, steel, iron ore, and coal; 62. Important uses of iron and steel in the United States; 63. Conclusion; Index.