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C. P. King & Son
| Name | C. P. King & Son |
| Ortssitz | Topeka (Kansas) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisengießerei |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 18] |
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| Eisenguß für Brücken |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: bridge castings |
| Gußeisen |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Iron foundry |
| ZEIT | 1874 |
| THEMA | Angaben zum Unternehmen |
| TEXT | The King Iron Bridge Manufactory and Iron Works of Iola, finding their orders increasing beyond their capacity to manufacture, and also that the facilities for transportation at Iola were inadequate, reorganized the past summer by incorporating the King Bridge Company, of Topeka, and immediately commenced the construction of shops on a grand scale. The foundry is 76x146 feet, is 22 feet high in the clear, contains two cupolas with stack 80 feet high, and will run twelve tons of iron per day. Adjoining this on the north is the machine shop, 80x158 feet and two stories high, the second story to be used for a pattern shop. The lower story will contain two steam engines of forty horse-power each. Immediately beyond this is the blacksmith shop, of same size as foundry; while, off the machine shop, to the east, giving the whole building the shape of the letter T, is the arch shop, 125x300 feet, through which crosses a railroad track, running over two of Fairbanks' scales of the capacity of 35 tons each. This shop will contain all the machinery for completing the bridges, including heavy shears, punches, etc. It is proposed to build the King Patent Bridge, used for highways only, which is made entirely of iron; the Pratt Truss Bridge (iron) for highways and railroads; the Howe Truss Combination, which is of wood and iron, all the members that bear strains of compression being of wood, while those that bear strains of tension are made of iron; and in short, any required pattern, besides iron piers, both cast and wrought, and all kinds of heavy castings generally. |
| QUELLE | [Wigley: Iron industry (1874)] |
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