The Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and steel


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A set of books on the Industrial Revolution, these comprehensive volumes cover the history of steam shipping, iron and steel production, and railroads-three interrelated enterprises that helped shift the Industrial Revolution into overdrive.




Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-century America


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"[The author's] M.I.T. doctoral dissertation ... in slightly altered form." Bibliography: p. 286-297.
















Iron Valley


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Development and struggle, 1802-1840 -- Brier Hill coal and "merchantable" pig iron, 1840-1856 -- Railroads, coal, iron, and war, 1856-1865 -- Expansion and depression, 1865-1879 -- The pressure of steel, 1879-1894 -- Steel, consolidation, and the fall of iron, 1894-1913