History of the Rise and Progress of the Iron Trade of the United States, from 1621 to 1857: With Numerous Statistical Tables, Relating to the Manufacture, Importation, Exportation, and Prices of Iron for More Than a CenturyWiley & Halsted, 1858 - 179 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American colonies amount annum anthracite coal April average bar iron blast furnaces blister steel bloomeries bolt iron Britain capital cast steel cent cheap competition Congress consumer consumption of iron cost dollars domestic duty employed England Export value facturer farmer fluctuations foreign iron foreign market forges free trade furnish hammered iron hematite home market hot-blast increased industry interest iron and steel IRON IMPORTED iron manufactures iron trade January Jersey July labor limestone makers manu manufac manufacture of iron Manufactures of Pig manufacturing iron Maryland merchants operation Pennsylvania Philadelphia pig iron pig metal ports price of iron production of iron profits protection quantity rails rates reduced rolling mills September slit sold South Carolina STATEMENT OF IRON supply Sweden tariff tariff of 1828 tilt hammer tion tons of bar tons of iron tons of pig United Virg'a and Mary'd Virginia wages wrought iron York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 137 - of, Connecticut, . . . Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa Kentucky Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, . . Michigan, Mississippi, .... Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, . . . New York,
Seite 22 - I believe that the laboring classes generally, in the manufacturing districts of this country, and especially in the iron and coal districts, are very little aware of the extent to which they
Seite i - TO 1857. WITH NUMEROUS STATISTICAL TABLES, RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE, IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION, AND PRICES OF IRON FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. BY BF FRENCH, MEMBER OF THE
Seite 22 - often indebted for their being employed at all, to the immense losses which their employers voluntarily incur in bad times, in order to destroy foreign competition and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets. Authentic instances are well known of employers having at such times carried on their works at a loss amounting in the aggregate to three or four hundred thousand pounds, in the course of
Seite viii - When the system of reciprocity and free trade had been proposed to a French ambassador, his remark was, " that the plan was excellent in theory, but, to make it fair in practice it would be necessary to defer the attempt to put it in execution for half a century, until France should be on the same footing with Great Britain, in marine, in manufactures,
Seite 45 - amount equal to the whole importation of steel of every kind. But it should be observed, that steel, for common agricultural purposes, is not the best, although it is most used, and that American is quite equal to English steel used for such purposes in England. American competition has excluded the British common blister steel altogether. The
Seite 57 - Connecticut .... Delaware Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky . . Louisiana Maine ... . Maryland . . . Massachusetts.. . . Michigan Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire. New Jersey, .... New York,
Seite 7 - In 1761 the Governor and Council of Maryland reported to the Commissioners of the Board of Trade and Plantations in England, that there were eighteen furnaces and ten forges in that State, which made 2,500 tons of pig
Seite 162 - of iron cinder discharged from the rolls or squeezing machine are added, and the whole is to be uniformly melted down. The mass is then to be puddled, with the addition of a little black oxide of manganese, common salt, and dry clay, previously ground together. After this mixture has acted for some minutes, the damper is to
Seite 62 - by air, or steam, or vapor of water applied from below, so that it may rise up amongst and completely penetrate and search every part of the metal previous to congelation, and prior to