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Bethlehem Iron Co.
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| Name | Bethlehem Iron Co. |
| Ortssitz | Bethlehem (Penns) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Walzwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Built in 1863. Mill No. 1; 14 double puddling furnaces, 9 heating furnaces, and 3 trains of rolls; product, railroad iron; annual capacity, 22.500 net tons; average annual production, 18.000 tons. Vergl. auch "Bethlehem Iron Works". Firmierte zwischenzeitlich (bis 01.05.1861) als "The Bethlehem Rolling-Mill and Iron Company". |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 74+113] |
| Hinweise | [Cassier's magazine (1891) Juli]: Portrait von Vizepräsident Russel W. Davenport |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 08.04.1857 |
Die Gründung geht auf Augustus Wolle aus Bethlehem zurück, der Vertrauen auf die Durchführbarkeit der Eisenindustrie im Lehigh Valley hat. Er erwirkt das Gründungsgesetz für die "The Saucona Iron Company" am 8. April 1857 |
| 14.06.1860 |
Bedingt durch den Zusammenbruch der "Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company", der bald nach dem Gründungsgesetz vom April 1857 erfolgte, verzögert sich der Bau des Werks, und die Ausgestaltung des Unternehmens erfolgt erst am 15. Juni 1860 |
| 16.06.1860 |
Baubeginn für den Hochofen Nr. 1 |
| April 1861 |
Baubeginn für das erste Walzwerk |
| 01.05.1861 |
Rückbenennung aus "The Bethlehem Rolling-Mill and Iron Company" in "The Bethlehem Iron Company" |
| 1863 |
Bau des Walzwerks |
| 05.01.1863 |
Hochofen Nr. 1 wird durch Frl. Kate Powell angeblasen. Er wird zunächst mit braunem Hämatit aus dem Saucon
Valley und magnetischem Eisenoxyd aus dem Morris County, New Jersey, betrieben. Der erste Abstich erfolgt am 6. Januar. - Nach 34 Wochen wird er wegen Reparaturen abgeblasen |
| Sommer 1863 |
Das erste Walzwerk wird fertiggestellt |
| 26.09.1863 |
Die ersten Schienen werden gewalzt |
| Mai 1864 |
Baubeginn für den zweiten Hochofen |
| 28.03.1867 |
Der zweite Hochofen wird angeblasen |
| 30.03.1867 |
Erster Abstich am zweiten Hochofen |
| Sept. 1868 |
Baubeginn für das Stahlschienenwalzwerk am "Andrews lot". - Das Datum der Fertigstellung ist unbekannt |
| Dez. 1868 |
Der dritte Hochofen wird angeblasen |
| 18.12.1868 |
Erster Abstich am dritten Hochofen |
| Produkt |
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Kommentar |
| Betrieb von Eisenhüttenwerken |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
Siehe betriebene Werke! |
| Eisenbahnschienen |
1876 |
Beginn |
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| Roheisen |
1863 |
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| Walzprofile |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
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| Bezeichnung |
Bauzeit |
Hersteller |
| Dampfpumpe |
1884 |
Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation |
| Dampfpumpe |
1886 |
Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation |
| Dampfpumpe |
1886 |
Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1876 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Built in 1863. Mill No. 1; 14 double puddling furnaces, 9 heating furnaces, and 3 trains of rolls; product, railroad iron; annual capacity, 22.500 net tons; average annual production, 18.000 tons. Mill No. 2; shaped like a double cross, 931 feet long, each arm being 386 feet by 111 feet; 24 and 26-inch rail trains, 124 feet 9 inches in length from centre to centre of engines; north engine, 48 in. x 46 in. stroke; south engine, 56 in. x 48 in. stroke; one 31-inch bloom train, with one engine 36-inch diameter and 60-inch stroke. Steelworks; 25-ton converters, equal to 120 tons Bessemer steel per day; cupola engine, 18 in. x 48 in.; blowing engine, 36 in. x 60 in.; 7 Siemens regenerative gas furnaces for heating ingots and blooms; 4 cupola furnaces, and 2 spiegel-melting furnaces. Alfred Hunt, President; Abraham S. Schropp, Secretary; C. O. Brunner, Treasurer, and John Fritz, Superintendent. SeeLehigh Valley Furnaces. |
| QUELLE | [Ironworks of the United States (1876)] |
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| ZEIT | ca. 1877 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The works of this company are located on both sides of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, a short distance below, its junction with the North Pennsylvania Railroad. They have been under the management of Mr. John Fritz since their commencement, in 1860, and their present condition is an evidence of the skill and energy which planned and erected them. The products are pig-metal, iron and steel rails, shapes, Bessemer steel billets, etc.
The works consist of: Five blast-furnaces for mill, foundry, and Bessemer irons; one blast-furnace for spiegel eisen; one large pattern, smith, and machine-shop; one foundry; one puddling and iron rail-mill; containing one 21 1/2 train for iron rails, shapes, etc.; one 12 1/2 train for small iron rails, shapes, etc.; nine single heating-furnaces; one 21 1/2 train for puddled-bars; thirteen double puddling-furnaces; One single puddling-furnace; one 5-ton steam-hammer. One steel-mill, containing two Bessemer converters; one 30 train for blooming Bessemer steel ingots; one 10-ton steam-hammer for cutting blooms; one 3 too steam-hammer; four Siemen's gas-furnaces for besting ingots; one 24 1/2 train for Bessemer steel rails and shapes; four Siemen's gas-furnaces for heating blooms. Their annual capacity is its follows: Bessemer Foundry and Mill, 70,000 Tons Spiegel Eisen, 1,200 Tons Iron Rails, 22,500 Tons Steel Rails, 50,000 Tons. The Northampton Iron Company's blast furnace, at Freemansburg, is now leased by the Bethlehem Iron Company. The originator of the company was Augustus Wolle, Esq., of Bethlehem, who having confidence in the feasibility and promise of iron-manufacture in the Lehigh Valley, procured an Act of incorporation of "The Saucona Iron Company", dated April 8th, 1857. The failure of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, which occurred soon after, bringing in its train the financial panic of 1857, prevented the building of works, or even the organization of the company until the fourteenth of June, 1860. When an organization was effected by the choice of the following officers, viz:
President-Alfred Hunt, of Philadelphia; Directors: Augustus Wolle, Asa Packer, John Taylor Johnston, John Knecht, Edward Roberts, Charles B. Daniel, Charles W. Rauch, Charles B. Daniel, Secretary and Treasurer. In the meantime the title of the company had been changed by Act of Assembly, to that of "The Bethlehem Rolling-Mill and Iron Company", and
again on the first of May, 1861, it was by the same authority changed to "The Bethlehem Iron Company", as it still remains. Eleven acres of ground having been purchased of "Abbott, Cortright & Company", at three hundred dollars per acre, on the south side of the "Lehigh Valley Railroad", and six acres more on the opposite side of that road, of
"A. Wolle & Company", at $1,50 per acre. The building of furnace No. 1 was commenced on the first named tract, July 16th, 1860, but the work proceeded very slowly, and it was not until the fifth of January, 1863, that the blast was flat on, by the hand of Miss Kate Powell, of Philadelphia. The first iron was smelted from a mixture of brown hematite from the Saucon Valley and magnetic oxide from Morris county, New Jersey, and was drawn the next day after blast was put on. The furnace continued in blast for thirty-four weeks, and was then blown out for some repairs; after which it
was again put on, and remained in blast for three hundred and sixty-three, successive weeks, (about seven years) producing in that time 63,007 tons of pig-metal. The first rolling-mill was commenced in April, 1861, and was completed in the summer of 1863; the first iron for rolling, being puddled on the twenty-seventh of July of that year, and the first rails were rolled on the twenty-sixth of the following September. Furnace No. 2 was commenced in May, 1864, and the first blast was put on March 28th, 1867 First iron drawn March 30th. Furnace No. 3 was put in blast in December 1868. First iron drawn on the eighteenth of same month. The steel rail-mill was commenced on the “Andrews lot,” in September, 1868. Precise data of completion not known. The company employs more than eight hundred men, and consumes 75,000 tons of coal annually. |
| QUELLE | http://www.lehighvalleyhistory.com/the-borough-of-south-bethlehem/ |
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