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050		4	_aTN704.N5 _bG67 1996
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100	1		_aGordon, Robert B. _q(Robert Boyd), _d1929-
245	1	0	_aAmerican Iron, 1607-1900 _cRobert B. Gordon.
300			_a1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 341 pages) : _billustrations, maps.
490	0		_aJohns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; _v[new ser., no. 19]
500			_aOpen access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
500			_aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 318-330) and index.
505	0		_a1. Iron -- 2. Ore, Fuel, and Other Natural Resources -- 3. The Rise of American Iron, 1720-1860 -- 4. Smelting with Charcoal -- 5. Converting Pig Iron to Wrought Iron -- 6. Coal-Fired Blast Furnaces -- 7. Steel -- 8. Shaping Iron and Steel -- 9. Iron Quality -- 10. Ironmaking Eclipsed, 1860-1900 -- 11. The Industrial Archaeology of Iron -- Appendix A Metallography -- Appendix B Iron Production Data.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520	8		_aIn American Iron, 1670-1900, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an ambitious, comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the twentieth century. Closely examining the techniques - the "hows"--Of ironmaking in its various forms, Gordon offers new interpretations of labor, innovation, and product quality in ironmaking, along with the industry's environmental consequences. He shows the high level of skills required to ensure efficient and safe operation of furnaces and to improve the quality of iron product. By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.
520			_aBy applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals.
588	0		_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aIron-works. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00979359
650		0	_aIron _xMetallurgy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00979114
650		0	_aIron _xMetallurgy _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aIron _xMetallurgy _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aIron-works _zNorth America _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aIron-works _zNorth America _xHistory _y18th century.
651		0	_aNorth America. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01242475
648		7	_a1700-1899 _2fast
653	0		_aUnited States
653	0		_aIron _aProduction
655		0	_aElectronic books. _2lcgft
655		0	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _tAmerican iron, 1607-1900. _dBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996 _w(DLC) 95044409 _w(OCoLC)33333822
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aJohns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; _vnew ser., no. 19.
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/72153/
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