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From Mary Furnace to Sharon Steel: Evolution and Integration of the United States' Last Manually Filled Blast Furnace, 1845–1963 (2012)

Ruminski, Clayton J. (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
Pages: 38-60

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24712342

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Coke Industry Blast furnaces Industrial archaeology Steel and steel industry Development of technology; change in technology Iron, Cast 20th century 19th century United States Youngstown, OH

Mary Furnace was one of twenty-two blast furnaces constructed in the Youngstown, Ohio, district between 1845 and 1872. Its significance as the first iron furnace in the United States built intentionally to utilize bituminous coal as fuel and its subsequent technological development through 115 years of operation illustrates its transition from a merchant pig-iron producer through absorption by the Sharon Steel Corporation. Mary furnace and the Lowellville, Ohio, steel works provide an unusual example of an interdependent relationship between new steel works and old blast furnaces in the twentieth century. Moreover, the furnace retained manual charging using men and barrows rather than mechanical skip hoists, making it the only one of its kind in the United States by 1940. Geographic and output restrictions resulting from the furnace's mid-nineteenth century origins largely prevented further modernization in the twentieth century.

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