Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870 /

Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870 / / Charles K. Hyde.

This book describes technological change in an industry that played a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars have examined isolated aspects of ironmaking in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, Charles Hyde surveys all aspects of its development. Costs, prices,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Hyde, Charles K.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©1977
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5485
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN IRON , 1700-1815
  • ONE : THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  • TWO. THE CHOICE OF FUEL BEFORE 1750
  • THREE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY, 1700-1750
  • FOUR. THE ADOPTION OF COKE-SMELTING, 1750-1790
  • FIVE: INNOVATION IN THE WROUGHT IRON SECTOR: THE POTTING AND PUDDLING PROCESSES TO 1790
  • SIX: THE IRON INDUSTRY IN WAR, 1790-1815
  • SEVEN: THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: THE IRON INDUSTRY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • PART II: THE MATURE IRON INDUSTRY, 1815-1870
  • EIGHT: THE IRON INDUSTRY IN PEACE, 1815- 1830: ADJUSTMENT AND INNOVATION
  • NINE: THE HOT BLAST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SMELTING SECTOR, 1828-1870
  • TEN: THE WROUGHT IRON SECTOR, 1830-1870
  • ELEVEN: THE IRON INDUSTRY ON THE EVE OF THE AGE OF STEEL
  • TWELVE: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH IRON INDUSTRY: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX A: BRITISH IRON OUTPUT, 1715-1750
  • APPENDIX B: CALCULATING VARIABLE COSTS FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRONWORKS ACCOUNTS: A NOTE
  • APPENDIX C: PIG IRON OUTPUT ESTIMATES FOR GREAT BRITAIN, 1788-1860
  • Bibliography
  • Sources Cited
  • Index

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