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Midvale Steel Works
| Name | Midvale Steel Works |
| Ortssitz | Nicetown (USA) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Stahlwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Built in 1866; one 4-ton air furnace for melting pig, and 11 coal and 3 gas-heating furnaces; one gas pot muffle and one kiln for drying; moulding and annealing shop, with 2 annealing and 4 drying furnaces. 1909: "Midvale Steel Co.", Hauptverwaltung und Werk in Nicetown. |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 124+127] [Hendricks' Commercial Register of the United States 18 (1909) 407] |
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Ereignis |
| 1866 |
Bau des Stahlwerks |
| 1873 |
William Sellers wird Präsident der "Midvale Steel Co.", Nicetown, Philadelphia. - Er organisiert die "William Butcher Steel Works" in Nicetown neu, und unter seiner Leitung wird es zum ersten erfolgreichen Hersteller von Material, das von der Regierung zur Herstellung von Stahl-Kanonen benötigt wird. |
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1909 |
[Hendricks' Comm. Reg.] |
1909 |
[Hendricks' Comm. Reg.] |
als "Midvale Steel Co." |
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1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
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William Sellers |
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| ZEIT | 1876 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Built in 1866; one 4-ton air furnace for melting pig, and 11 coal and 3 gas-heating furnaces; one gas pot muffle and one kiln for drying; moulding and annealing shop, with 2 annealing and 4 drying furnaces; 5 steam hammers, from 8 tons to 300 lbs.; tire-rolling mill, with capacity for 30 tires a day; machine shop, with five 80-inch boring and turning mills, two 80-inch and four 24-inch lathes, and one planer, 36 inches by 10 feet; one 30-ton converting furnace, with a yearly capacity of 500 net tons, fifty 4?pot steel-melting holes, one 30-pot Siemens gas melting furnace, one 6-ton Siemens open-hearth furnace, and one 4-ton Sellers open-hearth melting furnace; product, axles, tires, and tool, machinery, spring and frog steel, and all kinds of castings and forgings; daily capacity, 40 net tons, and yearly capacity, 12.000 net tons, of cast steel. William Sellers, President; Marriott C. Smyth, Secretary, and C. A. Brinley, Superintendent. |
| QUELLE | [Ironworks of the United States (1876)] |
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