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Iron Works

Clay City, Kentucky, known as Iron Works during the early 19th century


Henry R. Towne

Following his year of college, Towne found work as a draftsman at the Port Richmond Iron Works, which was owned by I. P. Morris, Towne & Co..


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Ambrose Crowley

The Crowley Iron Works at Winlaton, Winlaton Mill, and at Swalwell, all in County Durham were probably, at the time, Europe's biggest industrial location and later, as he was owed so much money by the British Government, Ambrose became a director of the South Sea Company on its formation.

Anna Valley

Tasker Waterloo Iron Works(Taskers of Andover) opened here in 1809 and survived as a manufacturing industry until final closure in 1984.

Arthur Brisbane

And its historic village is dedicated to portraying the life and times of James P. Allaire's "Howell Iron Works Company" largely through the non-profit educational organization, Allaire Village Inc.

Birtley, Tyne and Wear

Birtley is the home of the Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Birtley, and the Komatsu Heavy Engineering Company which operates from the previous premises of Birtley Iron Works (1827-, which became premises of the Caterpillar Company in the mid 20th century).

Charles Edward Emery

In December, 1867, he resigned, entered the employ of the Novelty iron works in New York City, and was general superintendent of the first American Institute Fair in its permanent quarters.

Charles James Valentine

He was managing director of the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Co., Limited, and Director of Cleator and Workington Junction Railway which was built to serve the iron works.

Commercial Iron Works

Commercial Iron Works established a shipyard on the Ross Island site in the early 1940s, which turned out close to 200 small warships during the war, including net layers, minelayers, submarine chasers, and LCI and LCS landing craft.

Cranege brothers

Their experimentation using coal in 1766 at the Coalbrookdale iron works under the sponsorship of Richard Reynolds was a precursor to the work of Henry Cort, who further refined their techniques, together with those of Peter Onions, leading to his patent of 1784.

Daniel D. Badger

Badger's Architectural Iron Works sent prefabricated cast-iron elements as far afield as Havana and Cairo.

Dugna

The steel mills were built in 1715 on the site of L. Naryshkin Iron Works, founded in 1690.

Elisha Johnson

During the American Civil War Union Army General William Sherman's soldiers destroyed the Tellico Iron Works but Sherman acquitted Johnson for his part in supplying the Confederate Army because of Johnson's northern birth and sympathies.

Erastus Corning

The United States Navy contracted with Corning's iron works to manufacture parts and materials for the USS Monitor, the Navy's first ironclad warship.

Eric Varley

Varley was born in Poolsbrook near Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire and left school at 15 to become a craftsman, first in the local iron works and then for the local mining industry.

Granville Woods

In 1876, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and worked at a rolling mill, the Springfield Iron Works.

Greenwood Furnace State Park

Ownership of Greenwood Furnace Iron Works was transferred to John A. Wright in 1847.

Hata, Nagano

Hata mainly serves as a bedroom community to Matsumoto City; however, it does have a few precision factories including Miyaji Iron Works, which contributed iron frames to structures such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and the Great Seto Bridge.

Holland I

Work on the vessel began at the Albany Iron Works in New York City, moving to Paterson, New Jersey, in early 1878.

James A. Burden House

Soon after, he commissioned the architects Warren & Wetmore to design a palace as a wedding present for his daughter Adele, who married James A. Burden II, heir to the Burden Iron Works.

James Motley

He worked as an engineer and manager (at Tewgoed (or 'Terrgoed') Colliery at Cwmafan); then underground surveyor to William Chambers of Llanelli; and finally, at Abercrave colliery, iron works, iron mines, and limestone quarries while maintaining an active interest in natural history, especially botany (he left a herbarium at the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea), and folklore.

John B. Snook

Snook's 620 Broadway (1858) – called the "Little Cary Building" for its resemblance to the Cary Building by Gamaliel King and John Kellum (1856) – was fronted with cast iron from Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

Cast-iron for Snook's commercial building facades was provided by Cornell Iron Works and by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

Low Moor, Bradford

The most dominant landmark in Low Moor is arguably the most dominant landmark in the entire village, Low Moor Iron Works CIBA.

Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum

The Stirling House is a prefab structure, planned and made of cast iron by the Iron Works of Mr. Hemming & Co., Old Ford, in 1869 for ₤ 265,00.

Mephan Ferguson

To enable this expansion he brought the Glasgow Iron works in West Melbourne.

Moondyne Joe

In 1841 the family was living at Illogan, Cornwall, but by 1848 Johns had migrated to Wales, taking work as an iron ore miner, probably at the Clydach Iron Works.

Mount Savage Iron Works

The company, led by Samuel Swartwout, a New York land speculator, renamed this area as the town of Mount Savage, and made plans to establish an iron works.

Newmains

The Coltness Iron Works was established in 1837 by industrialist, Henry Houldsworth who, foreseeing the gradual demise of the once booming cotton industry, decided to diversify into minerals.

Oregon Iron Works Sea Scout

The Oregon Iron Works Sea Scout is an unmanned seaplane developed by Oregon Iron Works in Clackamas, Oregon and Geneva Aerospace of Carrollton, Texas for the United States Navy.

Puerto Rico Iron Works

Puerto Rico Iron Works, under Luis Ferre's leadership, was the first company doing business in Puerto Rico to implement several labor measures that would not be adopted by the Puerto Rico Legislature until decades later, among them the institution of a Christmas bonus for employees to supplement the cost-of-living increases during financially difficult times; and the incorporation of a pension fund.

R. J. Billinton

Engineers of Pimlico London, and soon afterwards to the Calderdale Iron Works.

San Giuseppe Jato

The area around San Giuseppe Jato is also known for its beef cattle breeding and as a centre for woodturning and iron works.

Seaton Iron Works

The Seaton Iron Works were set up in 1762 by the firm of Hicks Spedding & Co., on land leased from Sir James Lowther for ninety-nine years.

Shelby, Alabama

At this time, Shelby was connected to Columbiana by the Shelby Iron Company Railroad, which allowed the iron works to be connected to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad.

Stewart Iron Works

Owned by the Stewart Iron Works Co., Inc., it was established by the Scottish American Stewart family.

West Somerset Mineral Railway

In the mid-nineteenth century, the proprietors of the Ebbw Vale Iron Works acquired an interest in iron ore deposits in the Brendon Hills on the north side of Exmoor.