Ironworking by Wkv Gale
Iron has been used for about 4000 years; it was essential to the industrial revolution and is still the principal metal of commerce. For centuries ironmaking was a manual craft, but with the invention of the blast furnace in the fifteenth century it became possible to produce iron on a large scale. Further technological developments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries meant that the scale of production developed rapidly and that new types of iron were introduced; one of these, steel, has largely superseded other forms. This book describes how iron and steel have been made from earliest times to the 20th century, and includes a gazetteer of ironworking sites and other places of interest.
The late W K V Gale came from a family long engaged in the making of iron and steel and spent all his working life within the industry. He was a technical adviser on iron and steel history to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, the Black Country Museum and the Department of the Environment.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747803911 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747803919 |
| Title | Ironworking |
| Author | Wkv Gale |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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