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Technological Innovation and Economic Change in the Iron Industry, 1850-1920

Robert A. Battis
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Anthracite Coal
Anthracite Iron
anthracite pig iron
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Bethlehem Iron Company
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industrial modernisation
Iron and steel industry
Iron Company
Iron Furnace
Iron Industry
Lake Superior Ores
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Lehigh River
Lehigh Valley metallurgy
Mauch Chunk
Merchant Furnace
merchant furnace history
Net Tons
Open Hearth Furnaces
Open Hearth Steel
open-hearth process
Pig Iron
Pig Iron Industry
Pig Iron Prices
Pig Iron Production
Robert A. Battis
Smelting Iron Ore
technological change in iron production
USA pig iron industry 1840-1921

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138561182
  • Weight: 860g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1989 this study examines some new facets in the development of the iron industry in the USA between 1839 and 1921 through the study of an individaul form, namely the Thoms Iron Company, one of the leading merchant furnace companies. It charts the end of the anthracite iron age and the changes which brought about the advent of open-hearth steel and integrated steel works. The book discusses the problems the managers of the firm faced with the appearance of industrial innovations which tended to undermine their firm's very existence and provided a new set of optimal conditions necessary for the survival of the firm. It provides a clear understanding of the destructive forces of industrial innovation and the place of creative entrepreneurship in the survival of the firm.

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