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Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing furnaces
SC 525213
Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing furnaces
Date 4/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 525213
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clyde Iron Works, Tollcross, Glasgow Clyde Iron Works, founded in 1787 as an iron-smelting works, was completely rebuilt from the 1930s to supply pig iron in molten form to the adjacent Clydebridge Steelworks, and in solid form to steelworks in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. This view shows the three blast furnaces at the works, to the right. The silver cylinders were the hot-blast stoves, in which waste gas from the furnaces was burned to heat up brickwork which then gave up heat to the blast air. The hot blast process was developed at Clyde Iron Works in 1828 by JB Neilson, and is still universally used in iron smelting. Clyde closed in 1978 as a result of the phasing out of open-hearth steel making by the British Steel Corporation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/45/3
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