Ironworking - Couverture souple

Gale, W.K.V.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747803919 ISBN 13 : 9780747803911

Editeur : Shire Publications, 2002

Synopsis

Iron, in one or more of its several forms, has been used for about four thousand years, it was essential to the industrial revolution and it is still the principal metal of commerce. At first, and for centuries, ironmaking was a manual craft, the quantities were small and the metal was scarce. Then in the fifteenth century, means were devised for making iron on a larger scale and ironmaking began to develop into an industry. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries technology and the scale of production developed rapidly and new types of iron were introduced. One of these, steel, eventually took over. About the author The late W. V. K. Gale spent most of his working life in the iron and steel industry. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a past president of the Newcomen Society, the Staffordshire Iron and Steel Institute and the Historical Metallurgy Society and a member of the Institute of Materials. He was a technical adviser on iron and steel history to the Ironbridge Gorge and Black Country museums.

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À propos de l?auteur

The late W K V Gale came from a family long engaged in the making of iron and steel and spent all his working life within the industry. He was a technical adviser on iron and steel history to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, the Black Country Museum and the Department of the Environment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shire Publications
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747803919
• ISBN 13: 9780747803911
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 32
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