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A History of the County of Shropshire
… were probably largely, if not entirely, superseded by a blast furnace on Linley brook, north of Upper Smithies. It … at Willey in 1776; it was the first ever to blow a blast furnace directly. 85 There were then apparently two … c. 1799; by 1796 and still in 1803 only one furnace was in blast, and Wilkinson gave up the works in 1804. The forge at …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Vulcan, St. Vincent and Vesuvius. Bomb-vessels: Basilisk, Blast, Carcass, Comet, Firedrake, Furnace, Greyhound, Julian …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… collieries, brick and tile works, &c.; and several blast-furnaces have been established for smelting iron-ore, … in great variety. The Chillington works consist of four blast-furnaces, forge, mill, &c., producing 400 tons of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… installed a Boulton & Watt engine to blow his two new blast furnaces at Snedshill, the first in the county on a … furnace closed. It was the first purposebuilt coke blast furnace to go out of use in the county; it had … at the southern extremity of the parish. A large blast furnace was built there by the Coalbrookdale partners …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the fires throughout the smithery; there are several blast-furnaces for converting scrap iron into pigs, and a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… largely for workers at the Lilleshall Co.'s Priorslee blast furnaces and, from 1861, at the New Yard. Many of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood mines and the Donnington Wood ironworks, 2 built two blast furnaces on the west side of what was later known as … work on its own plants, the company began to modernize blast furnaces and construct new ones for other firms. Those, … slag for the glass itself from the nearby Donnington Wood blast furnaces. In 1805 'black rock stone' was brought from …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… was the date 1612. These extensive works comprise seven blast furnaces for smelting the ore, air furnaces and cupolas … iron company, discovered a mode of using stone-coal in the blast furnaces, and since then stone-coal has been in general …