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Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company
| Firmenname | Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company |
| Ortssitz | Scranton (Penns.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Betreibt um 1876 die "Lackawanna Furnaces" (s.d.), die 1896 zu den "Lackawanna Iron and Steel Co." in New York. gehören. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 476] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 07.1840 |
Kauf des Werksgrundstücks in Scranton durch die Mitglieder der "Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company" |
| 09.1840 |
Grundsteinlegung für den ersten Hochofen |
| 1841 |
Es finden am Hochofen 1 verschiedene ergebnislose Versuche statt. |
| 18.01.1842 |
Der Hochofen wird angeblasen. Er arbeitet zwei Wochen erfolglos, dann aber gut. |
| 05.1844 |
Die Gebäude des Walzwerks werden begonnen. |
| 07.1847 |
Die erste stationäre Dampfmaschine in den Lackawanna und Wyoming Valleys, von Carbondale bis Wilkesbarre, wird in Betrieb genommen. |
| 1848 |
Bau der (vmtl. ersten zwei) Hochöfen |
| 1852 |
Die Hochofenanlage wird erweitert |
| 1854 |
Erneute Erweiterung der Hochofenanlage auf vier Öfen |
| 1862 |
Die Hochöfen 3 und 4 sind angeblasen; der erstere erzeugt 12.617 Tonnen. |
| 02.1862 |
Hochofen 3 erzeugt im Februar 375,5 Tonnen Roheisen, die größte Menge, die je in einem Anthrazit-Hochofen in den USA erzeugt wurden. |
| 1863 |
Hochofen 4 produziert 14.377 Tonnen. |
| Produkt |
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Kommentar |
| Betrieb von Eisenhüttenwerken |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
Siehe betriebene Werke! |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| Zeit |
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Abfolge |
andere Firma |
Kommentar |
| 1 |
Nebenwerk |
danach |
Lackawanna Furnaces |
um 1876 |
| 1876 |
Nebenwerk |
danach |
Lackawanna Furnaces |
Stand: 1876 |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Very large and important works for manufacturing Iron. There are four Blast furnaces, built in 1848, 1852, and 1854; Nos. 1 and 2 being eighteen, feet each in. the bosh; No. 3, nineteen feet; and No. 4, twenty feet; all fifty feet high. They are blown by four low-pressure beam engines; Nos. 1 and 2 having steam cylinders fifty-four inches in diameter, and blowing cylinders eighty-six inches in diameter; and Nos. 3 and 4, steam cylinders fifty-eight inches in diameter, and blowing cylinders ninety-three inches in diameter - all ten feet stroke - built by I. P. Morris & Co., of Philadelphia - the steam being generated entirely by waste heat. Two of the furnaces, Nos. 3 and 4, are now in blast, the former of which made, in ten months of 1862, twelve thousand six hundred and seventeen tons; and the latter made, in 1863, fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy-seven tons; and in twenty aud a half months of the present blast, twenty-five thousand tons. No. 3 furnace made in one week, in February, 1862, three hundred and seventy-five and a half tons pig metal, the largest week's produce ever made by any Anthracite furnace in this country. The aggregate productive capacity of all these furnaces is about sixty thousand tons per annum. The Puddling and Rolling-Mills of the Company comprise, the former, one building, one hundred and fifty by ninety feet, containing twenty furnaces; one building, three hundred by ninety feet, containing thirty-two furnaces; one building, four hundred and fifty by eighty-two feet, containing twenty-eight furnaces, and three high train puddle rolls - in all eighty furnaces, with steam boilers over each; and the main Rolling-mill building is five hundred by one hundred and forty feet, with fifteen heating furnaces, six trains of three high rolls, ten steam-engines, and one seven ton Nasmyth steam hammer. These mills have a productive capacity of thirty-five thousand tons finished iron, principally Railroad bars. The purchase of the present site of the town of Scranton, was made by several of the members of the present Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company in July, 1840. The place at that time consisted of five small dwellings, a saw-mill, grist mill, school-house and cooper shop. Now the town contains about fifteen thousand inhabitants. The foundations of the first blast furnace - now in ruins - were laid in September, 1840, and after several ineffectual attempts in 1841, was finally blown on January 18, 1842, blowing about two weeks without making any iron of consequence; after that, the furnace began to work fairly, and the blast was continued till February 26, when the heating oven gave out, having run five and a half weeks, making in all seventy-five and a half tons of pig-iron. The Rolling-mill buildings were commenced In May, 1844; and it was here that in July, 1847, the first stationary steam-engine was started in the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys, from Carbondale to Wilkesbarre, a distance of about thirty-five miles, comprising the greater part of this celebrated Anthracite coal field, where now not less than five to six hundred stationary steam-engines are constantly running. This Company have now in operation thirty different stationary steam-engines in the prosecution of their business. Attached to the Works are about seven thousand acres of coal and timber lands, with two hundred and fifty tenement houses for workmen. About one hundred and twenty thousand tons of coal are mined annually, nearly all of which is consumed at the works. The officers of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, at present, are Joseph H. Scranton, President; David S. Dodge, Treasurer; Edward C. Lynde, Secretary; Edward P. Kingsbury, Assistant Treasurer; Joseph C. Platt, Real Estate Agent and Storekeeper; and Charles F. Mattes, General Superintendent. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 476] |
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