Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN IRON , 1700-1815 -- ONE : THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- TWO. THE CHOICE OF FUEL BEFORE 1750 -- THREE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY, 1700-1750 -- FOUR. THE ADOPTION OF COKE-SMELTING, 1750-1790 -- FIVE: INNOVATION IN THE WROUGHT IRON SECTOR: THE POTTING AND PUDDLING PROCESSES TO 1790 -- SIX: THE IRON INDUSTRY IN WAR, 1790-1815 -- SEVEN: THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: THE IRON INDUSTRY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY -- PART II: THE MATURE IRON INDUSTRY, 1815-1870 -- EIGHT: THE IRON INDUSTRY IN PEACE, 1815- 1830: ADJUSTMENT AND INNOVATION -- NINE: THE HOT BLAST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SMELTING SECTOR, 1828-1870 -- TEN: THE WROUGHT IRON SECTOR, 1830-1870 -- ELEVEN: THE IRON INDUSTRY ON THE EVE OF THE AGE OF STEEL -- TWELVE: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH IRON INDUSTRY: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: BRITISH IRON OUTPUT, 1715-1750 -- APPENDIX B: CALCULATING VARIABLE COSTS FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRONWORKS ACCOUNTS: A NOTE -- APPENDIX C: PIG IRON OUTPUT ESTIMATES FOR GREAT BRITAIN, 1788-1860 -- Bibliography -- Sources Cited -- Index