Episode 43 18th Century Iron - Building the Home Industry

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Episode 43 18th Century Iron - Building the Home Industry 


Starting now I get to start using a bunch of the photos I took on my trip to Philadelphia.  In fact there will be more photos of things in general.  We just have more things from the 18th Century and forward than during the 17th.  So enjoy these examples.


A charcoal pile:

Adolf Ledebur: Manuel de la métallurgie du Fer, Tome 1.  
Librairie Polytechnique Baudry et Cie, 1895. p. 69
Iron Kitchen equipment
Fireplace Crane holding one style of Trammels
Iron Backplate for grabbing heat
(late 18thC style tea pot)


Fireplace with grid iron, round griddle, cook pot
and long handled tools
(author's photos at the Betsey Ross house in Philadelphia, PA)

More kitchen tools - crane at the back with chains & trammels
spit for roasting at the bottom
(author's photo at Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA)



Intricate side of a five plate fire-back stove depicting
The Last Supper
(author's photo at Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA)

Catalog of stove plates
(author's photo at Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA)


Try Pot for rendering Whale Blubber
Using the brick wall you can see that its about 14 bricks tall
- so it has a diameter of over 1 yd/1m
(author's photo at Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA)

If you are interested in reading any of the JSTOR hosted articles - you can get a free account that allows you to read things online - here:https://www.jstor.org/register?redirectUri=%2Fstable%2F2594878%3Fseq%3D1

Related Media:

Åström, Sven-Erik (1982) Swedish iron and the english iron industry about 1700: Some neglected aspects, Scandinavian Economic History Review, 30:2, 129-141,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03585522.1982.10407976

Hodgkinson, Jeremy. British Cast Iron Firebacks of the 16th to mid-18th Centuries. London; hodgersbooks, 2010.

Revolutionary War Journal,
Website - https://www.revolutionarywarjournal.com/iron-forge-in-colonial-america/











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