Ironworks Sentence Examples

The cognate industry of bleaching has been carried on since early in the 18th century, and large ironworks grew up in the latter half of the 19th century.

Pop. (1906) 9749 It possesses iron mines and is the centre of the coal-fields of the Aveyron, which supply the ironworks established by the Duc Decazes, minister of Louis Xviii.

By making them in longer lengths a reduction was effected in the number of joints - always the weakest part of the line; and another advance consisted in the substitution of wrought iron for cast iron, though that material did not gain wide adoption until after the patent for an improved method of rolling rails granted in 1820 to John Birkinshaw, of the Bedlington Ironworks, Durham.

There are ironworks and flour-mills; and corn and timber are shipped to Libau.

It has a royal arms factory established by Charles IV., and other ironworks, considerable manufacture of macaroni, paper, breeding of silkworms, and some fishing and shipping.

In the city are large ironworks, and numerous other manufactures.

There are coalmines, several ironworks - one is among the largest in Scotland - and, on the sandhills along the shore, the works of Nobel's Explosives Company, which cover an area of a mile, the separatehut principle being adopted to minimize the risks attendant upon so dangerous an occupation.

The Ypanema mine and ironworks, near Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, which belong to the national government, have been in operation since 1810, and small charcoal forges were in operation in colonial times and supplied the mines with a considerable part of the iron needed by them.

It still contains, however, large factories for firearms military and sporting, and side arms, besides ironworks, machine-works, potteries and tanneries.

Irun is the northern terminus of the Spanish Northern railway, and a thriving industrial town, with ironworks, tan-yards, potteries and paper mills.

Treviso is the seat of various manufactures - ironworks and pottery, macaroni, cotton-spinning and rice-husking, paper, printing, brushes, brickyards, flourmills - and is the centre of a fertile district.

The neighbouring scenery is attractive, especially in the Glen of Araglin, once famed for its ironworks.

The provincial government has established ironworks for the manufacture of rails and other railway material.

There are also ironworks and breweries.

Cottonmills, woollen-factories, ironworks, flagstone quarries at Elland Edge, and fire-clay works employ the industrial population.

The principal branches of manufacturing industry are flour-milling, potteries, ironworks and tobacco factories.

For a while he worked at the ironworks, Neath Abbey, Glamorgan, and then set.

Its largest industry is, perhaps, the manufacture of thread; there are also in the town ironworks, breweries, shipbuilding yards and electrical works.

There were formerly extensive ironworks in the Weald.

In Romsey there are tanyards, ironworks and works of the Berthon Boat Company.

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal intersects the township. There are large collieries, ironworks, forges, railway wagon works, and cotton mills.

From the middle of the 17th century the smelting of this metal began to be of importance in Massachusetts Bay and vicinity, and by the close of the century there had been a large number of ironworks established in that colony, which, for a century after its settlement, was the chief seat of the iron manufacture in America, bog ores, taken from the bottom of the ponds, being chiefly used.

The town has a large agricultural trade and ironworks.

The ribbon industry is of less importance than formerly, but there are ironworks, cotton, hat, elastic and worsted factories, and tanneries; the making of drain-pipes, tiles and blue and red bricks is a considerable industry.

The neighbourhood abounds in ironworks, collieries, quarries and potteries, and is thickly populated.

He also advocated the Freedmen's Bureau bills and the Tenure of Office Act, and went beyond Congress in favouring the confiscation of the property of the Confederate States and "of the real estate of 70,000 rebels who own above 200 acres each, together with the lands of their several states," for the benefit of the freedmen and loyal whites and to reimburse, it was said, the sufferers from Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, during which Stevens's own ironworks at Chambersburg had been destroyed.

In 1872 he took up construction in steel and started the Dalmarnock ironworks, becoming an expert in bridge-building.

It now has ironworks and foundries, and in East Mauch Chunk there are silk mills.

The first place amongst the industries is taken by the ironworks (one being a branch of the Krupp firm, the Grusonwerke, employing about 4000 hands), which produce naval armour and munitions of war.

The Barrakur ironworks produce pig-iron, which is reported to be as good as that of Middlesbrough.

The rise of the iron industry dates from the establishment of the Carron ironworks near Falkirk in 1760, but it was the introduction of railways that gave the production of pig-iron its greatest impetus.

There are numerous iron-ore mines in the parish, and ironworks at Askam-in-Furness, in the northern part of the district.

Clairvaux has ironworks of some importance.

The cotton factories are the principal source of industry; there are also ironworks and collieries.

There are extensive collieries and ironworks in the district.

The ironworks and blast-furnaces are almost wholly in the midland districts.

There are steam flour-mills and ironworks.

He set up ironworks in that neighbourhood, opened lead-mines and marblequarries, established a pilchard fishery, and commenced a trade in timber.

The town owes its origin to the development during the first half of the 19th century of ironworks at the upper ends of the valleys that converge in its neighbourhood, its site being previously known as Waun Helygen (Willow-tree Common).

Where the Coal Measures reach the sea at Whitehaven, there are coal-mines, and the hematite of the Carboniferous Limestones has given rise to the active ironworks of Barrow-in-Furness, now the largest town in the district.

It lies in the centre of the coal-mines district and has extensive foundries and ironworks.

Its industries comprise linenand damask-weaving, ironworks, and the manufacture of machinery, furniture and cigars.

Ironworks were established at Llwydcoed and Abernant in 1799 and 1800 respectively, followed by others at Gadlys and Aberaman in 1827 and 1847.

Previous to 1836, most of the coal worked in the parish was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks, but in that year the working of steam coal for export was begun, pits were sunk in rapid succession, and the coal trade, which at least since 1875 has been the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

It is in the neighbourhood of a lead and zinc mining region, where surface lead was discovered in 1873 and systematic mining began in 1887; among the cities of the state it is second to Joplin in mineral importance, and has large ironworks and flour-mills; mining machinery also is manufactured.

Coming to the conclusion that if any advance was to be made in artillery better metal must be available, he established a small ironworks in St Pancras, and began a series of experiments.

The town is modern and owes its prosperity to the ironworks and collieries in its immediate vicinity.

The town possesses large ironworks, coal-mines, rolling-mills, zinc smelting-works, railway workshops and manufactures of wire-rope, glass, chemicals, porcelain and soap. The first houses of Oberhausen were built in 1845, and it received its municipal character in 1874.

It has mineral springs, and the industries comprise fisheries, ironworks and foundries, sulphur furnaces, silkmills, rope walks, match factories, brickworks, flourmills and furniture.

Mr J.W. Lowe tells me that the colliery was owned by Henry Warrington & Son who also owned an ironworks there.

This line runs through a district which formerly had ironworks, coal mines and explosives factories and associated ports.

The early years of the furnace that was to become the world's largest ironworks.

This was hit even more when most of the local ironworks which used the canal closed down.

There are 5 locks, a modern pub and the site of a former ironworks.

He was initially financed by the owner of a Scottish ironworks, James Roebuck.

There were even plans for a new ironworks at Whitehaven, but this plan was dropped after Lord Lonsdale refused to give his support.

The Dockyard became obsolete with the coming of the iron ships as there was no nearby ironworks.

During this period many immigrant labourers settled here; for the ironworks and dynamite factory of Baracaldo prospered greatly, owing to the increased output of the Biscayan mines, the extension of railways in the neighbourhood, and the growth of shipping at Bilbao.

The ruin of the ancient moated castle of Codnor stands, overlooking the vale of the Erewash, on land which was once Codnor Park,, and is now the site of large ironworks.

He became lieutenant governor of Virginia in June 1710, when he was received with some enthusiasm, because he brought to the colony the privilege of habeas corpus; his term as governor closed in September 1722 - probably because he meddled in ecclesiastical matters; but he remained in Virginia, living near his ironworks in Germanna, a settlement of Germans, on the Rapidan in Spottsylvania county (named in his honour) and he was deputy postmaster-general of the colonies from 1730 to 1739.

Located on Columbia Square,the Kehoe House was built in 1892 in the Queen Anne style by William Kehoe, an owner of an ironworks foundry.

Teutul first started up a fabrication shop called Orange County Ironworks, and designed custom bikes as a hobby.

Orange County Ironworks was passed along to Daniel Teutul.

Ironworks, carpet-weaving and tanneries occupy many hands.

There are ironworks, tanneries, breweries, oil-mills and flour-mills in the town, which also has printing, furriery, doll-making and playing-card industries.

The exports consist principally of coal and iron from collieries and ironworks in the neighbourhood; and the imports of timber, ores and general goods.

It has important ironworks, foundries, locomotive works and silk manufactures, as well as sugar factories, printing works and cocoon-raising establishments.