Lehigh Crane Company

Allgemeines

FirmennameLehigh Crane Company
OrtssitzHokendauqua (USA)
Art des UnternehmensHochofenwerk
Anmerkungen[Freedley]: "Lehigh Crane Iron Co." (ohne Ortsnennung).
Quellenangaben[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 475] [Freedley: Philadelphia and its manufactures (1857) 326]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1840 Bau des ersten Hochofens
1842 Bau des zweiten Hochofens
1846 Bau des dritten Hochofens
1850 Bau des vierten und fünften Hochofens
1862 In den fünf Hochöfen werden fast 50.000 Tonnen Anthrazit-Eisen hergestellt.




Betriebene Dampfmaschinen

Bezeichnung Bauzeit Hersteller
Dampfgebläsemaschine um 1868 Isaac P. Morris & Co.




Allgemeines

ZEIT1868
THEMAFirmenbeschreibung
TEXTSituated about a mile below the Thomas Works, on the eastern side of the Lehigh river. These consist of five furnaces, the first stack having been built in 1840, the second in 1842, the third in 1846, and the remaining two in 1850. The first three are forty-seven feet high, but of different bosh widths - namely, eleven, thirteen, and sixteen feet. The last two are eighteen feet wide by fifty-five feet high, and are blown by four engines. The principal one, built by I. P. Morris & Co., has a steam cylinder fifty-eight inches in diameter, and a blowing cylinder ninety-three inches, both ten feet stroke of piston. The beam of this engine works on a column of cast-irpn thirty feet high, and the whole is set upon a heavy cast-iron bed plate. In 1862 the five furnaces made nearly fifty thousand tons of anthracite iron. The Superintendent or manager of these Works is Mr. John Thomas, a son of the gentleman who is accredited with having been the first who introduced successfully the use of anthracite coal in the manufacture of iron. This was accomplished in Wales, by David Thomas, in 1837 and in June, 1839, he superintended the blowing in the Pioneer Anthracite Furnace in Pottsville, the first of the kind in America. When we reflect that now sixty per cent, of all the iron made in the United States is anthracite, and look upon the magnificent furnaces that abound in the Lehigh and Schuylkill vallies, the name of David Thomas stands forth as one of America's benefactors.
QUELLE[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 475]