An old engraving showing workers drawing out the hot metal into long bars in a rolling mill or ‘ball chain’ in an iron works or foundry in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. An integrated ironworks in the 1800s usually included blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks.

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An old engraving showing workers drawing out the hot metal into long bars in a rolling mill or ‘ball chain’ in an iron works or foundry in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. An integrated ironworks in the 1800s usually included blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks. After the invention of the Bessemer process, converters became widespread, and the steelworks replaced ironworks.

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