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The Industrial Revolution in Iron - The Impact of British Coal Technology in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Industrial Revolution in Iron - The Impact of British Coal Technology in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The essays in this volume, each written by an acknowledged expert
in the field, trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it
spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the
Alps and Spain, and supply an authoritative picture of industrial
transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century. In
this period iron making in continental Europe was transformed by
the take-up of technologies such as coke smelting and iron puddling
that had already revolutionised the British iron industry. The
transfer of British technologies was fundamental to European
industrialisation, but that transfer was not straightforward. The
techniques that had proved so successful in Britain had to be
adapted to local circumstances elsewhere, for charcoal-fired
techniques proved surprisingly durable. More often than not, as
these studies show, coal-fired methods were incorporated into
traditional production systems, making for the proliferation of
technological hybrids. Overall, it is diversity that stands out.
Some European regions (southern Belgium) came near to the British
model; others (Spain) persisted with charcoal technology into the
late 19th century. Some countries (Sweden) adopted British
organisational principles but not the reliance on coal; others
(Russia) maintained different iron making sectors - one coal-based,
the other loyal to charcoal - in parallel.
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