| ISBN | 0714612723 | | Pages | 413 | | ISBN13 | 9780714612720 (What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Imprint | Frank Cass Publishers | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Format | Hardback | | Academic level | General | | Publication date | 01 Nov 1967 | |
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Part 1: the British iron and steel industry 1760-1879; iron in the economy of England and Wales in the 18th century; the rise of the coke-iron industry - Henry Cort and the puddling process; the British iron industry during the Napoleonic wars; ironworks and ironmasters during the Industrial Revolution - the Coalbrookdale company, the Dowlais ironworks, the Cyfarthfa ironworks, the Haigh ironworks, 1789-1856 - a nobleman's enterprise during the Industrial Revolution, the Silverdale ironworks; the ironmasters' associations in the early 19th century. Part 2: the expansion of the industry, 1788-1880 - South Wales, Scotland, the Black Country - South Staffordshire and Worcestershire, the North-east - the Cleveland district, Lancashire and West Cumberland, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, the other centres of the industry; the regional development of the industry, 1788-1880 -Shropshire, South Staffordshire, the Yorkshire (West Riding), Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire iron industry, South Wales, Scotland, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire; the advance of technology in the wrought iron industry - the blast furnace in the 19th century, the forge and rolling mill; the growth of large-scale industry -capital and enterprise in the iron and steel industry in the 19th century; the iron trade - the uses of iron, commerce in iron, organization of marketing and distribution in the iron industry, the commercial organization of the Scottish pig iron trade in the 19th century; the ironworkers - the ironmasters. Part 3: the process of supersession - the age of steel - the pre-Bessemer English steel industry; the development of mild steel; the new factors of industrial location - ores for steel - the Cleveland district, the North-West - Cumberland, Lancashire and Cheshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire; the triumph of steel over wrought iron - the Bessemer revolution, the Siemens regenerative furnace and the open-hearth process, basic steel; appendices.