Agriculture
Akos Paulinyi
Art
Bessemer Converter
Blast Furnaces
British Iron
British Iron Industry
Building industry
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Charcoal Blast Furnaces
Charcoal Fired Blast Furnace
charcoal ironmaking
Charcoal Pig Iron
Coal
Coal Mining
coal technology adaptation in iron industry
coke
Coke Blast Furnace
Coke Fired Blast Furnace
Coke Pig Iron
Coke Smelting
coke smelting diffusion
Denis Woronoff
Emiliano Fernez de Pinedo
Engineering
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European industrialisation history
Goran Ryden
Government
Hot Blast
Ian Blanchard
Iron
Iron Industry
Iron Making
Jean-Francois Belhoste
Journalism
La Constancia
Labourers
Literature
Making Bar Iron
Malleable Iron
metallurgical innovation
mill
Mining
Monarchy
nineteenth-century metallurgy
Paul Smith
pig
Pig Iron
Puddled Iron
puddling
Puddling Forges
Puddling Furnaces
Puddling Technique
Rafael Uriarte Ayo
Railway
Rainer Fremdling
Ralf Banken
rolling
Rolling Mill
Schools
Science
smelting
Steel
Swedish Iron
Technology
technology transfer Europe
Tim Gutteridge
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War
Product details
- ISBN 9780754633907
- Weight: 461g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this volume, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the Alps and Spain, and supply an authoritative picture of industrial transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century. In this period iron making in continental Europe was transformed by the take-up of technologies such as coke smelting and iron puddling that had already revolutionised the British iron industry. The transfer of British technologies was fundamental to European industrialisation, but that transfer was not straightforward. The techniques that had proved so successful in Britain had to be adapted to local circumstances elsewhere, for charcoal-fired techniques proved surprisingly durable. More often than not, as these studies show, coal-fired methods were incorporated into traditional production systems, making for the proliferation of technological hybrids. Overall, it is diversity that stands out. Some European regions (southern Belgium) came near to the British model; others (Spain) persisted with charcoal technology into the late 19th century. Some countries (Sweden) adopted British organisational principles but not the reliance on coal; others (Russia) maintained different iron making sectors - one coal-based, the other loyal to charcoal - in parallel.
Chris Evans is Principal Lecturer in History, University of Glamorgan, UK and Göran Rydén is an Assistant Professor in Economic History, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.
