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15.05.13
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 - Save the date - Call for papers now open
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 – Back in the Ruhr
Subject: “Measuring the benefits of industrial...
10.03.13
Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
21.02.13
Call for papers: Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures
International Conference Announcement and Call for Papers from the Ironbridge International...
Itinéraire thématique du fer et de l’acier
Deux étapes mènent du minerai de fer au fer et à l’acier, les deux matières clé de l’époque industrielle : la fonte des minerais dans le haut fourneau donne du fer pur ; l’affinage de la fonte, c’est-à-dire la diminution de la teneur en carbone, donne ensuite du fer forgé ou de l’acier. Les deux étapes dépendent du combustible : le charbon de terre naturel n’est pas adapté à la fabrication du fer, parce que ses oligo-éléments, surtout le soufre, abîment le métal. C’est pourquoi on a longtemps utilisé le charbon de bois dans les fours de traitement et les feux de fonte ...
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Bridgend | Cefn Cribwr Furnace |
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Bedford ParkCefn CribwrKenfig Hill | Bridgend | Great Britain |
| The blast furnace at Cefn Cribwr, 6 km NW Bridgend, produced iron for about 50 years from its foundation by John Bedford in the 1780s until 1836. Its remains, acquired by the local authority in 1987, ... plus >> |
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Budapest | Foundry Museum |
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Bem Jozsef-utca 20 | 1027 Budapest | Hungary |
| The foundry museum occupies the buildings of the engineering work established by the Swiss ironfounder Abraham Ganz (1815-1867) who moved to Budapest in 1841 and opened his own works in 1844, speciali... plus >> |
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Camborne | Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre |
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Troon | TR16 3SE Camborne | Great Britain |
| Long before I K Brunel’s broad gauge main line railway reached the west of Cornwall the tin and copper mines of the area around Redruth ahd Camborne were linked with harbours on the coast by early r... plus >> |
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Capalbio | Capalbio industrial landscape |
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Capalbio | Italy |
| Capalbio is a small but spectacular walled town, on the southern border of Tuscany, and 5 km from the Mediterranean coast. At Pescia Fiorentina, 4 km SW, is an integrated ironworks of the late 18th or... plus >> |
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Coatbridge | Summerlee Heritage Park |
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Heritage Way | ML5 1QD Coatbridge | Great Britain |
| Summerlee is a heritage park with a large exhibition hall whose aim is ‘to preserve and interpret the history of the local coal, iron, steel and engineering industries, and of the communities that d... plus >> |
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Creevelea | Creevelea Blast Furnace |
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Carrick-on-Shannon | Creevelea | Ireland |
| There are remains of at least eight charcoal-fired blast furnaces in Ireland, most of them built in the seventeenth century to use charcoal from woodlands, which were felled and cleared rather than ma... plus >> |
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Dortmund | DASA - L'Exposition Allemande sur la Sécurité et la Santé au Travail |
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Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25 | 44149 Dortmund | Germany |
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Dudley | Black Country Living Museum |
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Tipton Road | DY1 4SQ Dudley | Great Britain |
| Here is an opportunity to step back in time; step on the tram, and take it in to town. Stroll around the shops, watch the children whipping their spinning-tops in the street. Talk to the shopkeepers.... plus >> |
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Duisburg | Parc paysager Duisburg Nord |
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Emscherstrasse 71 | 47137 Duisburg | Germany |
| « Bien propre et prêt à redémarrer ». Pourtant le haut fourneau 5 de l’ancienne usine de hauts fourneaux Thyssen à Duisburg n’a pas repris du service. S’il est resté froid, c’est parce ... plus >> |
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Eisenerz | Abenteuer Erzberg |
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Erzberg 1 | 8790 Eisenerz | Austria |
| The area around the Erzberg (the Iron Mountain) in Styria has been one of Europe’s principal sources of iron ore since the middle ages, and the Voest Alpine steelworks still operates at Donawitz. Th... plus >> |
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Eisenhüttenstadt | Documentation Centre of Everyday Life in the GDR |
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Erich Weinert Allee 3 | 15890 Eisenhüttenstadt | Germany |
| Eisenhüttenstadt is a new town of the mid-20th century, an expression of the belief of Communist economists in the primacy of heavy industry. It stands on the River Oder, close to the point where it ... plus >> |
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Esch-sur-Alzette | Usines de Belval |
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6 avenue des Hauts Fourneaux | 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette | Luxembourg |
| The southern part of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg from the 1860s became one of the principal sources of iron ore in Europe, and because the government dictated that ore could only be mined by companie... plus >> |
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Fagervik | Fagervik Ironworks |
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Fagerviks gårdsväg | 10250 Fagervik | Finland |
| The well-preserved Fagervik ironworks at Inga (Inkoo) is architecturally the most distinguished in Sweden. It was established by Carl Billsten in 1646, and ceased production in 1902. The blast furnace... plus >> |
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Fermo | Montani Museum of Innovation and Industrial Technique |
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Via Padre Marchionni (corner Via Corridoni) | 63900 Fermo | Italy |
| The MITI Museum rises from the Historic Workshops of Montani Technical College, situated in the town center of Fermo, well known for the remarkable views of the Marche region and landscape, it is a st... plus >> |
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Finspang | Finspong ironworks museum |
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Bruksgatan 25 | 612 30 Finspang | Sweden |
| The water-powered ironworks at Finspong, 30 km west of Norrkoping was established in the late 16th century by the Walloon Wellam de Wijk. It came to specialise in the production of cast-iron cannon, a... plus >> |
