This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...made for use, and the designs now applied are modern and characteristic. There is no doubt whatever but that this trait proves a profitable one commercially, and that Pittsburg industries are seldom hampered by capital unduly laid out in buildings or idle parts of a plant. An interesting feature is the great diversity ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...made for use, and the designs now applied are modern and characteristic. There is no doubt whatever but that this trait proves a profitable one commercially, and that Pittsburg industries are seldom hampered by capital unduly laid out in buildings or idle parts of a plant. An interesting feature is the great diversity of product. One finds mills in Pittsburg which produce nearly all kinds of iron and steel almost under one roof. The Sligo, Juniata, and other works had won the highest reputations on products from their own furnaces and forges in Clarion, Centre, and Huntingdon counties. The suggestion that the other works should make their own pig iron was often considered, but for the want of ore at convenient distances little was done till the Pittsburg trade was planted in the civil war on an impregnable basis, and organized transportation made the ores of Lake Superior accessible. The Clinton furnace (1859), the two Eliza furnaces (1861), and the two Superior furnaces (1862-3) were all forty-five feet high and twelve feet diameter at the boshes, dimensions which were long the favorite ones, owing to ill success of the 15-foot furnaces first erected. The product of the Clinton furnace is a high one, notwithstanding its size, for it made 11,082 gross tons in 1874. The two Shoenberger stacks, 47 by 13 feet, use a large portion of Canada magnetic ore, and made in 1874 15,273 tons of 2268 pounds each. About 1872 a change--an enlargement of dimensions and power, utilizing English ideas--took place in blast furnace construction which has placed Pittsburg at the head of the trade as respects blast furnace product. The Lucy furnace (75 feet high, 20 feet bosh), the two Isabella furnaces (No. I, 75 feet and 18 feet, and No. 2, 75 feet and 20 feet), and the Soho fu...
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