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McKeesport Iron Works
| Name | McKeesport Iron Works |
| Ortssitz | McKeesport (USA) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Walzwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Eigentümer: Wm. D. Wood & Co. Works at McKeesport, Allegheny county. Built in 1851; 10 forge fires, 7 single puddling furnaces, 16 heating furnaces, 4 trains of rolls, and 4 hammers. Büro: 111 Water Street (in Pittsburgh?). |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 89] [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 81] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1851 |
Bau des Walzwerks |
| 1856 |
Gründung durch John Fleming unter seinem Namen in kleinem Umfang |
| 1858 |
Eintritt von Joseph Torrence und seitdem unter der Firma "Fleming & Torrence" |
| 1865 |
Nach dem Eintritt von weiteren Teilhabern Umfirmierung in "Fleming, Torrence & Co." |
| 1868 |
Umfirmierung aus "Fleming, Torrence & Co." in "Fleming, Agnew & Co." |
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1856 |
Gründung |
1879 |
[Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 81] |
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| Walzprofile |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
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Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
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andere Firma |
Kommentar |
| 1876 |
Nebenwerk |
zuvor |
Wm. D. Wood & Co. |
Stand: 1876 |
| ZEIT | 1876 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Eigentümer: Wm. D. Wood & Co. Works at McKeesport, Allegheny county. Built in 1851; 10 forge fires, 7 single puddling furnaces, 16 heating furnaces, 4 trains of rolls, and 4 hammers; product, sheet iron, both common American and planished in imitation of Russian; annual capacity, 4.000 net tons; average make, 3.500 tons. |
| QUELLE | [Ironworks of the United States (1876)] |
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| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Manufacturers of Patent Planished Sheet Iron. Works, McKeesport, Pa. The McKeesport Iron Works are eligibly situated on the bank of the Monongahela River, eleven miles above Pittsburgh, covering an area of five acres, and affording employment to about 300 men. The senior partner of the firm, Mr. W. D. Wood, some thirty years ago began a series of
experiments in the manufacture of sheet iron, the end sought after being to produce as durable and as finely finished an article as the "Paissia Iron." Many others in this country and in Europe have made similar attempts, but he alone succeeded, and the McKeesport Iron AVorks is today the only mill outside of Prussia manufacturing this class of iron. The firm (composed of W. D. Wood and his sons, Richard G. and Alan W. Wood) commenced manufacturing an article in imitation of Russia Iron as early as 1851, at the works pictured above, (then just built). In the year 1870 they made a great improvement in their process, and the product was sold as American Russia Sheet Iron. In 1873 further improvements were made, including their Patent Planishing Process, and since then the product has been sold as Patent Planished Sheet Iron. This iron is equal in all respects to the Imported Russia. The principal railroad lines in the United States and Canada have adopted the Patent Planished Iron for covering their locomotives and for mounting the stoves in the passenger coaches. The Company also manufacture three other grades of sheet iron, known to the trade as the smooth surfaced common, charcoal, and Juniata. Patent Planished Sheet Iron is made exclusively of the best hammered charcoal bloom iron (made at the McKeesport Iron Works) and finished under planishing hammers weighing about three tons, striking 300 blows per minute, with an estimated force of 20 tons to each stroke. This planishing process imparts to it that beautiful gloss and dappled appearance of Russia Iron, and closes the pores so effectually that it will resist the action of the atmosphere fully as long. The capacity of the works is about 30,000 packs of Planished and about 5,000 tons of all kinds of sheet iron per annum. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 81] |
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