. Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain. le is intimately associated with the early historyof the manufacture of pig-iron. When the exhaustion of wood-lands was threatened in the early years of the eighteenth centuryattention was turned to the application of coal in the blastfurnaces. About 1730 an unsuccessful attempt was made byAbraham Darby to smelt iron with a mixture of raw coal andcharcoal. He, however, made further trials and finally treatedpit-coal as charcoal-burners treat wood, and with the coke soproduced he finally succeeded.^ The success of this experimentled t
. Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain. le is intimately associated with the early historyof the manufacture of pig-iron. When the exhaustion of wood-lands was threatened in the early years of the eighteenth centuryattention was turned to the application of coal in the blastfurnaces. About 1730 an unsuccessful attempt was made byAbraham Darby to smelt iron with a mixture of raw coal andcharcoal. He, however, made further trials and finally treatedpit-coal as charcoal-burners treat wood, and with the coke soproduced he finally succeeded.^ The success of this experimentled to a great increase in the quantity of pig-iron was then, and for long after, the principal iron- 1 Percy, Metallurgy, Iron and Steel, 1864, p. 888. Smiles, IndustrialBiography, 1876, pp. 77-98. 88 CARBONIFEROUS ORES. Fig. 9.—Geological Sketch-map of the CoalbrooJcdale Coalfield. SCALE OF MILES 0 PIT SHAFT NELWER ROCKS. COAL MEASURES8c Perm ia n . OLDER ROCKS. ^ revysbi/ri^ » d—: : —^ ^?^^^^,*^irmi nAharnJBran c/) tHETLEY ^\»OAK£A/. GATES I
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