Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama

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Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama; Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diameter, Sloss's new Whitwell stoves were the first of their type ever built in Birmingham and were comparable to similar equipment used in the North.

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Location: US
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License: Licensed
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Keywords: alabama, bessemer, birmingham, blast, factory, furnace, iron, manufacturing, steel