iron-furnace

The man who built the first cotton-mill in his section, or started the first iron-furnace, or laid the first stretch of railroad, was rightly hailed as a benefactor; and he could not foresee that the time would come when his mill, entering into a business combination with a hundred other mills in different parts of the country, would be merged. in a monopoly to strangle competition in cotton manufacture.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

All ages of history have known high intensities, like the iron-furnace, the burning-glass, the blow-pipe; but no society has ever used high intensities on any large scale till now, nor can a mere bystander decide what range of temperature is now in common use.

A Law of Acceleration (1904) 1918

History, like everything else, might be a field of scraps, like the refuse about a Staffordshire iron-furnace.

Dilettantism (1865–1866) 1918

He was once prominent in the iron-furnace industry of Ohio, and was for a time associated in the iron trade with the father of the late President McKinley.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

I made a present of the model to Mr. Robert Grace, one of my early friends, who, having an iron-furnace, found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitable thing, as they were growing in demand.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition) 1909

He was once prominent in the iron-furnace industry of

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron-furnace, saying, Hearken to My

Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

In him was rooted by inheritance a quick sense of the manufacturer's point of view, for his father and grandfather had been iron-furnace men, and a certain conservative instinct, characteristic of his party, which deemed the counsel of broadcloth wiser than the clamor of rags, and equally patriotic withal.

History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

Notwithstanding the large number of furnaces in blast throughout the county of Sussex at the period we refer to, their produce was comparatively small, and must not be measured by the enormous produce of modern iron-works; for while an iron-furnace of the present day will easily turn out 150 tons of pig per week, the best of the older furnaces did not produce more than from three to four tons.

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

Notwithstanding the large number of furnaces in blast throughout the county of Sussex at the period we refer to, their produce was comparatively small, and must not be measured by the enormous produce of modern iron-works; for while an iron-furnace of the present day will easily turn out 150 tons of pig per week, the best of the older furnaces did not produce more than from three to four tons.

Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858