History Of Metals In Colonial America
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Author |
: James A. Mulholland |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 1981-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817300531 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817300538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Metals in Colonial America by : James A. Mulholland
In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to regulate manufacturing of metals, the colonial society developed a metals technology that became the basis for future industrial growth.
Author |
: Charles R. Simcoe |
Publisher |
: ASM International |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627081467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627081461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Metals in America by : Charles R. Simcoe
The History of Metals in America chronicles the development of metals as both an industrial activity and a science. Progress involving structural metals made possible the air, land, sea, and space travel of today, skyscrapers reaching over 100 stories high, and many other engineering accomplishments that continue to shape modern society. This lively book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the evolution of metals and metallurgy from the beginning of iron production in colonial times with the first iron plant in 1645 to the prevailing metals of the 21st century. Each chapter describes the development of a metal or series of metal alloys, industry growth, and modern uses in manufacturing. It includes chapters on cast iron, wrought iron, alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, nickel-base superalloys, aluminum, and titanium. Other chapters cover the science of metals as it developed from 1890 to 1950 and the biographies of the pioneers of metals research. The final chapters cover the formation, growth, and decline of the integrated steel industry and the rise of a new industry in steel minimills. The History of Metals in America will appeal to readers in all sectors of the materials industry, students and faculty of engineering programs, middle and high school American history students, and anyone interested in the history of technology, travel, tools, and machinery in the U.S. The author, Charles R. Simcoe, wrote more than 40 articles for ASM International’s Advanced Materials & Processes magazine, including a monthly series entitled “Metallurgy Lane,” which became the basis for this book.
Author |
: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum |
Publisher |
: Winterthur Museum |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0912724374 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780912724379 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Metalwork in Early America by : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
Copper and its alloys - brass, bronze, and paktong - were an integral part of Americans' lives from the time of earliest settlement. Throughout the first two hundred years of colonial and early federal America, these metals were fashioned into literally hundreds of different types of objects. This volume explores the importance of these metals for early Americans, using the extensive collections at Winterthur. The first three chapters cover mining and manufacturing techniques, the extensive marketing network through which raw materials and finished goods moved from manufacturer to consumer, and the factors that governed the marking of metals by their makers. These essays, followed by color plates, provide a background and introduce the entries, which picture and discuss more than three hundred individual objects. Each entry presents specific information that can include metallurgical content as well as the object's function, fabrication, history, maker - if known - and the social context surrounding its use.
Author |
: John R. McNeill |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2017-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520279179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520279174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mining North America by : John R. McNeill
"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Peter Bakewell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2020-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351917353 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351917358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas by : Peter Bakewell
This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in mining in the 16th-19th centuries; elsewhere they traded metals mined by others. The principal metals produced, and in prodigious quantities, were silver, in the Spanish colonies, and gold, mainly in Brazil in the 18th century. These articles analyse the volume and pattern of production and the forms of labour found in mining. Particular attention is given to the technologies of extraction and refining, notably the adoption of the mercury amalgamation process: this had a major impact, driving down silver production costs; because the mercury mines were a royal monopoly, it also handed control to the Spanish crown.
Author |
: James Ciment |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 3151 |
Release |
: 2016-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317474166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317474163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History by : James Ciment
No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines of America's distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns had begun to emerge. Designed to complement the high school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, "Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events of the first three hundred years of American history. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies stretching along the Atlantic, Colonial America sets this history in its larger contexts. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world directly impacting the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. This monumental five-volume set brings America's colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. It includes: thematic essays on major issues and topics; detailed A-Z entries on hundreds of people, institutions, events, and ideas; thematic and regional chronologies; hundreds of illustrations; primary documents; and a glossary and multiple indexes.
Author |
: Charles K. Hyde |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1998-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816546138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816546134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Copper for America by : Charles K. Hyde
This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas—the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska—from colonial times to the present. Starting with the predominance of New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the early nineteenth century, Copper for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and to Montana, Arizona, and other western states in the late nineteenth century. The book also examines the U.S. copper industry's decline in the twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign copper industries and unforeseen changes in the national and global copper markets. An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.
Author |
: Robert B. Gordon |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 1086 |
Release |
: 2020-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421435022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421435020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Iron, 1607-1900 by : Robert B. Gordon
Winner of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for General Engineering from the Association of American Publishers Originally published in 1996. By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals. In American Iron, 1607-1900, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an ambitious, comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the twentieth century. Closely examining the techniques—the "hows"—of ironmaking in its various forms, Gordon offers new interpretations of labor, innovation, and product quality in ironmaking, along with references to the industry's environmental consequences. He establishes the high level of skills required to ensure efficient and safe operation of furnaces and to improve the quality of iron product. By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.
Author |
: David O. Whitten |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 1997-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781567509724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 156750972X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services by : David O. Whitten
The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.
Author |
: Bruce J. Noble |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 42 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951P00930479F |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9F Downloads) |
Synopsis Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating and Registering Historic Mining Properties by : Bruce J. Noble