The industrial revolution in iron : the impact of British coal technology in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Chris Evans and Göran Rydén.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Chris, 1961-

Rydén, Göran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron industry and trade--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Iron industry and trade.

Iron industry and trade--Europe--History--19th century.

History.

Europe.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

ix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]

Contents:

The industrial revolution in iron : an introduction / Chris Evans and Göran Rydén

The industrial revolution in iron in the British Isles / Chris Evans

Foreign trade, transfer, adaptation : British iron

Making technology on the continent (Belgium and France) / Rainer Fremdling

The diffusion of coke smelting and puddling in Germany 1796-1860 / Ralf Banken

The French iron and steel industry during the industrial revolution / Jean-François Belhoste and Denis Woronoff

Good ore but no coal, or coal but bad ore. Responses to the British challenge in the Habsburg Monarchy / Akos Paulinyi

Responses to coal technology without coal. Swedish iron making in the nineteenth century / Göran Rydén

Nineteenth-century Russian and 'Western' ferrous metallurgy

Complementary or competitive technologies? / Ian Blanchard

British technology and Spanish iron making during the nineteenth century / Emiliano Fernández de Pinedo and Rafael Uriarte Ayo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

075463390X

OCLC:

55955357